How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss

Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by enriquto on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:42AM (#25478607)

I'd love an option to setup domains where no search results are to be returned. Of course pinterest, but also quora, (and sometimes reddit), etc.

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Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by pault on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:46PM (#25480512)

-site:Pinterest.com

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Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by mishac on Saturday December 19, 2020 @04:31PM (#25481405)

That doesn't work well for me because I get still get pinterest.co.uk, pinterest.ca, pitnerest.it etc etc.

I guess we need wildcard domain exlclusion.

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Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by LordNight on Saturday December 19, 2020 @06:30PM (#25482313)

The correct command is -inurl:pinterest.

Additionally, for those, who likes to add reddit in the search query, i'd also like to recommend " inurl:forum OR inurl:board " (note also that forum and forums gives different results for some reason).

Personally, I like to do broad searches on google to discover new stuff, but for the past 7 or 8 years, google often returns ~100 result instead of the usual 1000000+. And, contrary to the logic, adding various inurl: commands actualy gives you more results instead of limiting them and thus significantly improves searching capabilities.

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