Search engine owned and developed by Google
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Does LinkedIn access my cookies and Google search history for its suggestions? [closed]
LinkedIn seems to suggest people I may know. I believe, or it's my hypothesis, that LinkedIn scours information located in the cookie files on my computer and in some way accesses the information that ...
2
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1answer
685 views
Search Google Images for minimum 640x480 size by default
I generally search for images using Google Image Search and after any search, I select the minimum size as 640x480 from the left pane of the page.
Is there any way to set a minimum size for Google ...
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2answers
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Service that shows most popular queries/keywords related to a specific topic X? [closed]
I know Google Trends/Zeitgeist. But what I'm looking for is a service where you can enter, for example "Politics", and then the service gives out the most popular queries containing "Politics"-keyword ...
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1answer
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How do I block results for particular words in my Google Custom Search Engine?
I am aware of how to remove websites from search results in my Google custom search engine *(either by using the control panel or uploading annotations in an xml file under 'advanced')... but how to I ...
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1answer
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How to Google search for void*
I was trying to search for
void*
but instead of results I get
To continue, please type the characters below:
and a CAPTCHA with an explanation saying
About this page
Our systems have ...
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2answers
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4answers
1k views
Is there a way to remove sites permanently from (my personal) Google search results?
I'm regularly finding sites that copy content from elsewhere (mailing lists, etc) while not providing any added value. Quite to the contrary, they are pretty heaped with ads.
I'd like to remove those ...
2
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0answers
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Searching for Google Maps direction by query
When I want to get directions between two well-known places, I enter a query like "from Heaven to Hell" into Google, then switch to Maps tab and the route is there (provided that Heaven and Hell are ...
2
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2answers
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Google Search—set search language
When I'm searching on Google, I usually use English. But sometimes I need results in a specific language only (Czech).
So I checked it in settings:
But when I want to search, I now have only two ...
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1answer
108 views
How to search an embedded Google Spreadsheet in Google Sites?
I would like to know how I can make embedded spreadsheets searchable in Google Sites.
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2answers
4k views
Why does Google Search use redirects instead of direct links?
All Google Search results are a redirect link like this: ...
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votes
1answer
2k views
How to exclude a domain from Google search?
I would like to do a search query and filter out all results from www.foo.com. How do I do that?
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0answers
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How can I filter Google search results that aren't relevant to a specific topic?
Does Google Search offer any option to filter search results that aren't relevant to a specific topic? I already know that it's possible to filter out specific words and phrases using the - character, ...
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0answers
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How do I google the Thai name of Bangkok in Chrome?
I tried doing a google search for the Thai name of Bangkok
กรุงเทพ มหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลกภพ นพรัตน์ราชธานี
บุรีรมย์อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต
...
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2answers
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O Google, where art thou Linux special search?
Google Linux search has disappeared. Were there any announcements by Google regarding it?
google.com/linux was a Linux specific search, part of a set of Special Searches along with UncleSam and BSD. ...
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0answers
15 views
How to search for words with the same suffix on Google? [duplicate]
I thought it was possible by using the asterisk but that returns no result.
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0answers
32 views
How to get Google Search to index a Google Group? [duplicate]
We've migrated from a Nabble-index mailinglist to Google Groups last March.
Unfortunately Google Search (and Bing) doesn't seem to index our group*, are there any settings I can check that might be ...
2
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1answer
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Is there preference settings so Google stops favoring recent news?
Doug Saunders ask, on Twitter,
Is there a way to turn off Google's recent-news precedence so it strictly searches by backlink count, as it used to do?
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2answers
2k views
How can I reduce/ remove YouTube results in Google search?
I've noticed YouTube videos getting a lot of 'love' from Google in recent searches. This is actually quite annoying. One recent search yielded 10 unrelated videos on page one!
Is it possible to ...
5
votes
1answer
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Google Search: Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network.
I frequently the below message when using Google search:
Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network.
This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, ...
5
votes
1answer
5k views
How do we access the previous versions of Google caches?
How do we access the "earlier caches" of Google?
For example, the website http://www.onemillionpeople.com/ is current down for maintenance.
When I access the Google's web cache, it still shows ...
3
votes
1answer
53 views
How to get Google Currency Converter back
This is the currency converter and today I am not getting it on https://www.google.com/search?complete=0&q=1+usd+in+aed . Also I am getting a Search sidebar which I haven't seen for a long while ...
5
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6answers
3k views
How do I turn off Google Suggest permanently?
There used to be an option for turning Google Suggest off permanently, but since Google Instant was launched it appears to be gone. A temporary solution is to open
...
0
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2answers
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Search my gmail account for emails form specific email address
I have a gmail acocunt where as I can send and recieve my emails via my own person email address aka. myname@myemailid.com. This all works fine. But backed up in my 10 odd year old gmail account I had ...
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0answers
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Change Google search language to English [duplicate]
I live in Brazil and Google search always comes with Brazilian versions of the websites I am searching for. How can i get only the English versions. My language is set to english
It is using my IP ...
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0answers
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Does Google still offer data on hourly search volume?
If I'm remembering correctly, Google used to offer search volume by the hour here: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=pope&date=today%207-d&cmpt=q
Now, the lowest I can seem to go is 7 ...
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4answers
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Force Google search to use only the exact words typed, no spellcheck or synonyms
How can I force Google search to use only the exact words (not entire phrase) I typed and not to use spell check and similar words/synonyms?
Here is a query I performed in Google search:
Mayavi ...
3
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2answers
172 views
Report Google web search results that contain offensive images
In Google Image Search, it's possible to report individual offensive images. How can I report web pages (or entire websites) that contain offensive images? These pages occasionally show up in search ...
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vote
1answer
163 views
How should I write the URL for a specific Google Search query?
Whenever I type a search query in Google Search, I am presented with long and complicated URLs like this one:
...
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1answer
185 views
Can I have Google search results always filtered?
Is there a way to have Google search results always filtered? I am constantly clicking on "only show results from the past year" and I would like to make this default.
0
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1answer
74 views
Where I can find my own Google+ Play reviews and ratings?
I know that now Google Play reviews and ratings are connected with my Google+ account and my name. But where exactly I can find list of my own reviews and ratings Google Play apps?
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votes
11answers
33k views
Turning off Google search results indirection
In Google search results, in Firefox or Chrome, I get URLs that go through Google and not directly to the target site. For example, at
http://www.google.com/search?q=foo
the first result is
...
1
vote
1answer
228 views
Results from Google do not contain my search terms
I have a frustrating feeling that Google's results are sometimes inaccurate:
When I'm looking for terms that do not exist together, Google gives me results anyway even if these results do not contain ...
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0answers
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How to make Google completely oblivious of my location and let it use my old location?
I'm in Japan for some time and I want my old Google search. Whenever I login to Google and go to google.com, it goes to the local Japanese search page. I want my old home country's search page.
I ...
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2answers
725 views
How to increase the Google search results to display more than 100 results?
I’m trying to save all the URLs of my website that are indexed in Google, so I want to increase the displayed search results to more than 100.
Is it possible? And if yes, how?
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0answers
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What happened to Google Scholar search by subject area?
It was possible to restrict search in Google Scholar by subject area, e.g. it was possible to select Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics in Advanced Scholar Search, which had the same ...
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2answers
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Leave out search results older than two years by default
One thing I don't like about Google Search is that it often includes results that are very very old. Is there a way to permanently turn off old results, like block all results older than two years? If ...
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10answers
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Copy raw link found by Google search, not the one with extra redirect added
In Firefox, after searching for some keyword in Google and getting a list of results, I would like to copy the link address of a particular result. But I find that the link address is not the actual ...
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1answer
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Searching for populations of a list of cities
I want to create a list of all world cities named "Alexandria", along with their populations. Can a search engine do that? What could the query look like?
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0answers
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Search a single website using regular expressions?
Is there a way to search a single web-domain using regular expressions? I've been mirroring sites with WinHTTrack and then using dtDesktopSearch but it's an incredibly inefficient process and I was ...
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1answer
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Google search operator “site:” … how to limit its scope?
Assume there is a website with the domain name baz.tld. It has content. There is also content on subdomains foo.baz.tld and bar.baz.tld, but there is no www.baz.tld subdomain.
The most frequent ...
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4answers
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Method for searching for email addresses on Google
How should I be googling for an email address in a way that minimizes false positives (while avoiding false negatives)?
That is, just searching the email address isn't enough, since you end up with a ...
2
votes
1answer
181 views
How to get the Google search history of myself
Can I get my Google search history starting from the moment I started using the Google search engine?
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0answers
32 views
Is there such a thing as sensible way to change a search language?
For quite some time I struggle changing the language of some Google searches. The thing is, I am totally OK with the default language, currently German. However certain topics, yield better results if ...
5
votes
2answers
122 views
Where can I report bugs relating to Google Search?
I'm looking for either an URL with a feedback form or an email address.
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4answers
1k views
What does “I'm feeling lucky” button do?
I am using Google many years, but I still don't know what does "I'm feeling lucky" button,
and why it's placed there. Explain me .
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0answers
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some unknown person is sending messages how can I stop these type of persons from sending messages to my message box
An unknown person who is following my updates and irritating me with messages. How can I stop this type of harassment how can I overcome into this situation. Please help me
0
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1answer
120 views
Searching google videos of a particular size
Is it possible to search videos on http://google.com with different parameters like size in MB, GB or resolution or file type etc. Just like we have for Images.
Is it possible to apply some query ...
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0answers
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Is there an option to display “offensive” search suggestions in Google Search?
I've noticed that typing certain Google Search queries results in the "Press Enter to search" dialog being shown. Some words that I type, including the beginnings of "offensive" words, do not show any ...
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vote
1answer
859 views
Force Google Search to do absolutely exact match
Is there a way to do a real exact match in Google?
Quotes or plus do not make it exact.
I'm trying to search for the phrase "offset 0", but the results contain "offset: 0", which is not the same and ...
