Filter your Google search
- Posted:
- October 26th, 2008
- Peter
There are days like today I just want answers from my search engine, and I don’t want to sift through the quagmire of sites that rank high on Google but contain no redeeming features what so ever. An example would be Yahoo answers. When the question is who should be the next president of the USA? Yes put this to a vote. However, if the question is “How much electricity does the average household use?” you want a real answer from somebody who knows what they are talking about. But, instead Yahoo puts this to a popular vote, so you get the question is “resolved” with the answer “who really knows?” or “Fish!”
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My other pet hate is sites that will only give you the answer after you have parted with your hard earned cash or go through a complex sign-in process. “How do I stop my arm from hemorrhaging having cut it off with a chainsaw?” - “Please insert thirty cents for the first three letters of the answer then press button A followed by button B” and you still get the popular answer not an expert answer - Leaches!
And what about those sights that ramble on with their personal opinions before giving you the answer! What if you could filter all these useless sights from your Google search results. Well you can. The CustomizeGoogle plug-in for FireFox allows you to filter your search results and make several other useful customizations to Google search and other Google inc. products. Thank you CustomizeGoogle you have brought a small amount of sanity back to my life.