__/ [ hug ] on Monday 22 May 2006 10:29 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>__/ [ hug ] on Sunday 21 May 2006 12:12 \__
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>__/ [ hug ] on Saturday 20 May 2006 12:46 \__
>>>>
>>>>> www@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Matt Probert) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Real scenario.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I was looking for a bulk toy or wholesale outlet in the UK so as to
>>>>>>buy some small toys in bulk for our local school fete tombola stall.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Several searches of Google.co.uk returned nothing but worthless,
>>>>>>deceiptful directories of supposed web sites (you all know the type),
>>>>>>many of which were not in the UK. While I appreciate these sites are
>>>>>>deceiving Google, I still question Google's value as a search engine
>>>>>>in returning results for them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Matt
>>>>>
>>>>> Google used to be the best and fastest way to find anything. Now it's
>>>>> an advertisement distributor, not a search engine. Keep your
>>>>> eyes'n'ears open kids, there will be a replacement for google one of
>>>>> these days just as google replaced altavista years ago.
>>>>
>>>>If you are judging by the past couple of month,
>>>
>>> I'm judging by maybe the past 3 years.
>>
>>You can easily mask all the ads. Then, your only issue is link spamming,
>>which subverts/ed the results.
>
> Roy, what is this "mask all the ads" thing you mention? I haven't
> heard of it before.
In Firefox (I am rarely ever using the other browsers nowadays), you can use
a whole variety of plugins to give you the pig without the lipstick.
NoScipt, FlashBlock, AdBlock, pure-CSS exclusions of ads (in chrome), among
more. And if all else fails, there is Scroogle. 100 results per page, as per
Google, no clutter, no 'noise'.
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