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I realize this is not a Google group, but everyone seems very helpful
- and I couldn't find any Google groups.

Does anyone know a way to use Google and get it to bypass all of their
paid advertisers? Most of the time when I use Google, the first page
of results are all of the sites that pay Google to elevate their
rankings in the results.

I have gotten to almost always ignoring first page of results. Am I
the only one who has noticed this? Has anyone figured out a way to
kill their paid sites?

Tom

Tom wrote:

> I realize this is not a Google group, but everyone seems very helpful
> - and I couldn't find any Google groups.
>
> Does anyone know a way to use Google and get it to bypass all of their
> paid advertisers? Most of the time when I use Google, the first page
> of results are all of the sites that pay Google to elevate their
> rankings in the results.
>
> I have gotten to almost always ignoring first page of results. Am I
> the only one who has noticed this? Has anyone figured out a way to
> kill their paid sites?
>
> Tom

I have my prefs on Google set to display 50 items at a time and I've
never seen an entire page of paid links. Usually there are two or maybe
three clearly identified as paid at the very top. Then there is a
column at the extreme right containing other paid links. Everything
else is a valid search result.

Can you give an example of a search that produces the result you're
describing?

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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:07:11 GMT, in message
*<>, Tom wrote:

> I realize this is not a Google group, but everyone seems very helpful
> - and I couldn't find any Google groups.
>
> Does anyone know a way to use Google and get it to bypass all of their
> paid advertisers? Most of the time when I use Google, the first page
> of results are all of the sites that pay Google to elevate their
> rankings in the results.

Not here. You're not thinking of some other search engine?


I'm looking at a Google search right now.
There's a "sponsored links" column on the right with a few paid ads.
Everything in the main column is a bona fide search result.


> I have gotten to almost always ignoring first page of results. Am I
> the only one who has noticed this? Has anyone figured out a way to
> kill their paid sites?


Can you post an example of a Google search query
where the first page is all paid ads?


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> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:07:11 GMT, in message
> *<>, Tom wrote:
>
>> I realize this is not a Google group, but everyone seems very helpful
>> - and I couldn't find any Google groups.
>>
>> Does anyone know a way to use Google and get it to bypass all of their
>> paid advertisers? Most of the time when I use Google, the first page
>> of results are all of the sites that pay Google to elevate their
>> rankings in the results.
>
> Not here. You're not thinking of some other search engine?
>
>
> I'm looking at a Google search right now.
> There's a "sponsored links" column on the right with a few paid ads.
> Everything in the main column is a bona fide search result.
>
>
>> I have gotten to almost always ignoring first page of results. Am I
>> the only one who has noticed this? Has anyone figured out a way to
>> kill their paid sites?
>
>
> Can you post an example of a Google search query
> where the first page is all paid ads?

i intentionally loaded this with spam words, because i rarely get lots of spamlink pages in google.
http://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&q=...gra+%7C+holdem

1 and 4 look like real sites, vandalized/defaced by blogspam.
2 and 3 look like "real" spamsites.


used to be you would get almost a whole page of spamsites, pure spam link pages. nowadays google can give spam results, but
the actual spam is *within* someone's blog comment section.


the tedious way to remove spam from google results is to install customize google. it adds a "filter" link for each result. click the
link, and that link (or the whole site, wildcarded/regexed) can be added to a filter list.

i don't use this, because i've developed a good eye (?) for spamsites, and find it fastest to just continue scannig down the
results page.


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