Re: Excluding shopping pages when searching the Web withGoogle

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

Along with your irony bit I find it odd that at every online store I've ever
been to I can restrict my search to a single brand (sometimes a group of
brands) but there's no way to exclude a single brand.  For instance, looking
at a list of TVs and removing Sony from the list (Nothing against Sony; just
using them as an example) while leaving Samsung, Vizio, LG, etc.

I can cull the herd based on price and other features so the code to do it
is already in their app; why can't I remove the brand(s) I don't want?

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Burns, Bryan <Bryan_Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> John,
>
> -Cart works well, thanks for that!
>
> I do find it ironic though that you can limit your Google search to just
> shopping by using a tab; but you can't eliminate shopping somehow
> without the minus operator.
>
> Bryan
>
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> withGoogle
>
> You can add -cart to your search queries to omit pages with the work
> cart on them.  You can do that for multiple terms.
>
> The minus operator can also exclude sites: -site:amazon.com omits
> Amazon.com from search results.  So does -amazon.com, BTW, but that will
> also filter out sites that merely refer to Amazon as, say, a place to
> purchase.
>
> http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861#exce
> ptionsmight
> help some.
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM, <Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Bryan,
> >
> > You might try the advanced search.  I haven't used it in a while but
> > in the past you could enter words to omit.  For example exclude sites
> > with 'best price' in their search.  It really helps cut down on the
> > clutter.  Not perfect though.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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>
> > On Behalf Of Burns, Bryan
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> > Subject: [PCTECH] Excluding shopping pages when searching the Web with
>
> > Google
> >
> > Is there a way to exclude shopping pages when using Google to search
> > the web?  For example, I often Google a string including the words
> > "MC9090 scanner", which is a common barcode scanner here at ECHO; and
> > the top pages are all shopping pages when I'm looking for
> > troubleshooting, reference, tips and techniques, etc. types of pages.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any input.
> >
> > Bryan Burns
> > IT Department
> > ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment
> > Lake Zurich, Illinois
> >
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