Remove these crappy ultra-long links from my Google Search Results when I right-click! [more inside]
posted by cashman on Nov 5, 2009 - 5 answers

Is a published Google Doc document autoindexed by Google or hidden until it is first linked by another page? [more inside]
posted by nolnar on Aug 28, 2009 - 5 answers

Why does this google search not find this AskMe thread? Or what can I do to my search terms to make this search work? [more inside]
posted by Mitheral on Aug 5, 2009 - 5 answers

Do Google and Bing spider XML pages? [more inside]
posted by netbros on Jul 28, 2009 - 2 answers

Google search seems to be exhibiting an irritating new behavior. Please help! [more inside]
posted by limeonaire on Jun 8, 2009 - 18 answers

How do I interpret Google image searches that lead people to my blog? [more inside]
posted by marxchivist on May 28, 2009 - 6 answers

Two tech questions: I've just started running into a weird message when I try to go to a page on the ABC News page: This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. and this is the URL I was reading a NYT story earlier today that mentioned Lamda at the very end of the story. Cleared the cookies, shut down and restarted both browsers (IE and Firefox) but keep getting the same message. Separately, lately when I read certain blogs, I am suddenly taken to a Google images search page; the original pages' URL shows up in the search field and the message is that the URL can't be found. I cannot seem to get rid of this problem. All ideas welcome, and thanks.
posted by etaoin on May 19, 2009 - 5 answers

Can I somehow create a program (a Bot?) to automatically start a Google search of Pandora and/or Last.fm songs as they are playing? [more inside]
posted by jaseaco on May 3, 2009 - 2 answers

Is SEO worth paying for? [more inside]
posted by man down under on Apr 20, 2009 - 13 answers

Is there a way to keep Google Desktop without it hijacking Vista's search? [more inside]
posted by inbetweener on Mar 28, 2009 - 4 answers

I deleted the Google search engine from my Firefox search engine bar. How do I add it back? [more inside]
posted by rintako on Mar 21, 2009 - 7 answers

Google search was great, until now. Now it asks you "Did you mean this" and then populates the first two results with the term you didn't type, but Google thinks you MUST have meant, because they are smarter than you. So, what's a good search engine for someone who loves the old google search simplicity? (P.S. Live and Yahoo are far worse)
posted by parallax7d on Feb 24, 2009 - 12 answers

If you do a google image search for Stevie Wonder, no images are found. Any idea why? I have never searched for something and found nothing.
posted by rollo tomassi on Feb 6, 2009 - 48 answers

Can anyone recommend a powerful textual search tool I can use on anything I want? [more inside]
posted by valkyryn on Feb 6, 2009 - 11 answers

How do I get Google to stop putting the "Try your search on *other search engine links*" bar at the top of all of my search result pages? [more inside]
posted by decathecting on Jan 20, 2009 - 4 answers

When I use the "or" operator in Google Trends, I get strange results. [more inside]
posted by thrako on Jan 3, 2009 - 3 answers

What is Google trying to do with searchwiki? [more inside]
posted by rdr on Nov 22, 2008 - 6 answers

Help me hide my blog from the Googlebots. [more inside]
posted by hamster on Nov 17, 2008 - 6 answers

A Google Books search of "charles dickens" (Full view only) returns "Books 1 - 10 of 156,600 " - but when I click through the Result Pages, it stops after the 70th or sometimes 100th hit and won't show any more. How do I view all results - is 156,600 even a reliable number?
posted by stbalbach on Nov 9, 2008 - 10 answers

What is the name of this search engine game? [more inside]
posted by abirae on Oct 22, 2008 - 8 answers

How to search for anything (or find the answer to anything) on the internet when all else has failed? [more inside]
posted by schindyguy on Oct 21, 2008 - 20 answers

How do I change the name and URL of my website without losing visitors and Google search placement? [more inside]
posted by rintako on Sep 14, 2008 - 8 answers

Are there any good blogs out there on improving your Googling skills? [more inside]
posted by vizsla on Sep 8, 2008 - 6 answers

Sitemaps seem like a huge pain in the butt. [more inside]
posted by Meatbomb on Aug 23, 2008 - 10 answers

Conditional search engine selection in Firefox search box based on contents (in particular, character set) of the search query? [more inside]
posted by qvtqht on Aug 7, 2008 - 5 answers

Is there any way to embed (is that the right word?) a Google Custom Search Engine on a Google Site? [more inside]
posted by ian1977 on Jul 6, 2008 - 4 answers

Is there a way to search all of the revisions when doing a search in Google Documents?
posted by overglow on Jul 5, 2008 - 1 answer

Keeping my name private on my website - can robots.txt help? [more inside]
posted by giddygirlie on Jun 19, 2008 - 6 answers

Does anyone know how to combine sitesearch and Feeling Lucky in google URLs? [more inside]
posted by bonecrusher on May 5, 2008 - 5 answers

Under the hood of Google Analytics. GA does a great job of segmenting paid and organic search metrics - traffic, keywords, etc. How does it know one from the other ? [more inside]
posted by superfurry on Mar 13, 2008 - 3 answers

Google keywords and AdWords for a business. How does the whole shebang work? Does it? What's your experience/advice? [more inside]
posted by miss lynnster on Mar 6, 2008 - 13 answers

Firefox Filter: Is there any way to view the autofill lists outside of Firefox? [more inside]
posted by M Edward on Feb 2, 2008 - 4 answers

Is there a way of making google.co.uk default to searching for "pages from the UK" instead of "the web" in Internet Explorer? [more inside]
posted by Solomon on Oct 15, 2007 - 2 answers

Why have Google and Microsoft shunned my web site? And why does Google's sitemap control panel think my robots.txt file is unreachable? [more inside]
posted by JDHarper on Aug 27, 2007 - 7 answers

Help me find a Windows-based cataloging program that can handle indexing of Word documents and can crawl network (SMB) shares. [more inside]
posted by ostranenie on Jul 9, 2007 - 6 answers

My website/blog has all but disappeared from Google. What happened, and what can I do to fix it? [more inside]
posted by mendel on Mar 30, 2007 - 10 answers

Google shortcoming? Why can't Google find this article when I added two more keywords from the article? [more inside]
posted by cluelessguru on Feb 22, 2007 - 11 answers

How do you know what Googlers were searching for? [more inside]
posted by tellurian on Jan 31, 2007 - 10 answers

Is the price you pay for Google Sponsored links determined by simple supply-and-demand or is it determined by the the service/product being offered?
posted by jacobean on Jan 13, 2007 - 2 answers

Google: Is there any way to see all 35k results for a search term in video.google.com instead of just the first 500 or so? At some point, clicking on the following page of results, Google yields a blank page.
posted by Clementines4ever on Jan 11, 2007 - 3 answers

Sorry for the banal question, but I have to make a decision in the next couple of weeks. We have a new website with a unique product to promote. As of 2007: Paid search. Google or Yahoo? Combination of both? What percentage for each? Does it depend on the product / website? [more inside]
posted by paulinsanjuan on Jan 6, 2007 - 7 answers

How do you search for minus sign (the "-") in Google? [more inside]
posted by MarkO on Dec 17, 2006 - 6 answers

Trying to turn a set of bookmarks (del.icio.us) into a custom search engine. [more inside]
posted by imposster on Dec 12, 2006 - 8 answers

Is there any way to search for specific types of web sites that use Google Adwords (or any other sponsored link service)? [more inside]
posted by Joleta on Dec 8, 2006 - 1 answer

A while back I found a site that allowed you to search Google for products, and it would automatically add negative keywords to your search that filtered out pretty much all of those price comparison sites that seem to be all you get on Google now when you search for a product. Only now I can't find it. Anyone?
posted by Mwongozi on Oct 15, 2006 - 5 answers

Is there a reason I should or should not use Google Maps API for my business' search for dealers? [more inside]
posted by Blue Buddha on Sep 28, 2006 - 2 answers

Who coined the term "Google effect" and what was its original meaning?
posted by pessoa on Apr 29, 2006 - 11 answers

Do you know of any Firefox search plug-in that will "search this site" (being the current *websitesite*) for text entered in the search box? [more inside]
posted by chefscotticus on Apr 13, 2006 - 6 answers

I want to read as many blog posts as possible that were posted during a specific week-or-so period in 2004. What tools/sites can help? [more inside]
posted by staggernation on Apr 6, 2006 - 6 answers

Is it just me, or has Google become less and less useful as a porn-search tool? [more inside]
posted by kenoshakid on Mar 22, 2006 - 23 answers