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October 17, 2006 05:56 AM
Give Me Back My Google
This site automatically strips out a ton of affiliate spam from Google. The results are quite revealing.
How does affiliate spam make it into Google in the first place? Well, not everyone thinks it's spam. Via Matt Haughey.
- Posted by John Battelle on October 17, 2006 05:56 AM
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Amazing how easy it is to strip out all that advertising (I mean spam)
some example search terms, please! I'm not seeing any difference with "Motorola Q," "SLingbox," others.
Yes, examples, please. I am also not seeing a difference with the infamous 1998 Brin and Page "Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" query: "cellular phone".
My agency runs affiliate programs for several big brand clients and I tested words relevant to all of those clients and saw no real difference. In some cases the GMBMG page returned more results.
It is surprising that this person has to start a whole web-site to simply write a Macro. Just one macro?
Just for everybody's information, there are hundreds of search macros available with Live Search. You would find a useful one for yourself too!
Further, it is easy to create a search macro without requiring any geeky knowledge. If you can use advanced search feature on google, you can write macros similar to this site, which supposedly is giving you your google back. Microsoft has already given you, your google back!
These macros are easy to share too. They can easily be improved upon by others. No need to suggest back to the original macro writer "please remove or add this site." Just do it yourself, and take the community credit, aka, browny points for doing it too!
These macros are themselves easily discoverable at http://gallery.live.com (choose Search macro tab on the left column). Or simply search anything on Live Search and open the "more" tab.
Disclaimer: Most of the excitement expressed is due to the commentator's regular use of Live Search and some excitement is also due to the fact that the commentator is a Microsoft employee.
I tried a bunch of techy type queries and saw no difference. Stuff like iPod, RAZR, etc. In fact RAZR had a ton more hits with the Give Me Back My Google version (though I assume it's a problem with the counter since under no circumstances should limiting your sources actually provide more hits).
This is just like MySERP.com accept a year and a half late.
and funnily enough the author lives not very far away from us in the South West of the UK. H'm...
I think this simply omits results from a standard set of commercial ecommerce sites that don't change with the query. Thus as Kamal notes it's a simple thing and as others note it'll rarely make a difference unless there are many results from from that very small group of excluded sites.
IMHO it's just a linkbait site, not an innovation.
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