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Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by adventured »

wglb wrote: post #19
Pxtl wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've found that copying recipes off of webpages is the most important one - you'll never find the same recipe twice.

That is quite interesting. Any idea why?

Several reasons. There is a seemingly unlimited variation of each basic recipe name (often the same exact recipe named multiple ways; or slightly different recipes named the same). There are thousands of recipe sites and blogs, and ten million unique recipes. The popularity of recipes and recipe sites can change rapidly, and often does; due to seasonality, food trends, seo, competition - so that recipe you found at result #4 on Google, isn't likely to be there a year from now.

Online recipes is herding cats.

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by e1ven »

jaredmcateer wrote: post #12
sentenza wrote: post #8

The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away. Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead bookmarked pages, downloaded videos and copied strings (!) out of the web for years. Not that it did me much good, I now have thousands of inconsistently sorted bookmarks and a bu…

You can't really trust bookmarks either. Most of my bookmarks are dead either because the site is now gone or because some blog author decided to change their path format and didn't bother setup 301 redirects.

I started saving/clipping entire articles for this purpose. Evernote has a 'clipper' functionality which works fairly well, or you can print to PDF.

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by sp332 »

jaredmcateer wrote: post #12
sentenza wrote: post #8

The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away. Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead bookmarked pages, downloaded videos and copied strings (!) out of the web for years. Not that it did me much good, I now have thousands of inconsistently sorted bookmarks and a bu…

You can't really trust bookmarks either. Most of my bookmarks are dead either because the site is now gone or because some blog author decided to change their path format and didn't bother setup 301 redirects.

That's what the Internet Archive is for :)

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by ddeck »

midgetjones wrote: post #5

You still can, just not as obviously: https://www.google.com/?tbm=dsc

Thank you, it works. After some googling, it seems the following are supported [1]:

  Applications : tbm=app
  Blogs*       : tbm=blg
  Books        : tbm=bks
  Discussions* : tbm=dsc
  Images       : tbm=isch
  News         : tbm=nws
  Patents      : tbm=pts
  Places*      : tbm=plcs
  Recipes*     : tbm=rcp
  Shopping*    : tbm=shop
  Video        : tbm=vid
* those not available via normal search page (from my location at least).

[1] http://stenevang.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/google-search-url-...

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by warnhardcode »

ddeck wrote: post #27
midgetjones wrote: post #5

You still can, just not as obviously: https://www.google.com/?tbm=dsc

Thank you, it works. After some googling, it seems the following are supported [1]: Applications : tbm=app Blogs* : tbm=blg Books : tbm=bks Discussions* : tbm=dsc Images : tbm=isch News : tbm=nws Patents : tbm=pts Places* : tbm=plcs Recipes* : tbm=rcp Shopping* : tbm=shop Video : tbm=vid * those not available via normal search page (from my location at least). [1] http://stenevang.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/google-sear…

Does anyone know what these searches do? Does a filter limit the search to known domains, or silently add keywords that identify a site as a blog or a video?

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by whizzkid »

Am i the only one recently having moments like "wait a second!", while using google services?

Connecting every google service to a single one might be the best thing for Google, BUT, not for me!

Google, you are almost merged with whole Internet thing, so stop forcing people into using a single system!!

I like and use gmail often but don't want to be logged in while checking youtube!

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by neomindryan »

jaredmcateer wrote: post #12
sentenza wrote: post #8

The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away. Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead bookmarked pages, downloaded videos and copied strings (!) out of the web for years. Not that it did me much good, I now have thousands of inconsistently sorted bookmarks and a bu…

You can't really trust bookmarks either. Most of my bookmarks are dead either because the site is now gone or because some blog author decided to change their path format and didn't bother setup 301 redirects.

I pay pinboard.in to host cached copies of everything I bookmark.
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