I'm a female in the US, about to get married for the second time and taking my husband's name. Help me manage how my new name appears online before it starts to happen.
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 2, 2013 -
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How can I prevent video results from showing up in a Google search? For example, if I do a google search on "
picasa os x 10.6.8 screen resolution", half the links on the first results page are youtube videos. If I want videos I can select "videos" instead of "web". But I can't figure out how to prevent videos from showing up in a regular web search.
(I'm running Firefox on a MacBook Pro 10.6.8; I get the same results using Chrome.)
posted by Wet Spot
on Jan 22, 2013 -
3 answers
Is there a book blurb search engine, or something that will let me see if someone has ever written a book blurb, and what it was? (Or some clever way of googling Amazon's Editorial Reviews sections)
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posted by sdis
on Oct 11, 2012 -
3 answers
How important is Google PageRank in relation to the updates in recent months with regard to Google Panda?
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posted by MrMerlot
on Sep 12, 2012 -
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How can I block certain sites from Google search results while preventing Google from tailoring search results just for me?
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posted by alligatorman
on Aug 9, 2012 -
9 answers
Please recommend for me a new search tool to replace Google Desktop. Ideally I want something that searches the full text of all files, that covers everything on my hard drive plus Google Docs. I want it to be fast, offer results in context, and have a simple interface that offers 'sort by relevance' and 'sort by date.' I use Ubuntu.
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posted by Susan PG
on Mar 19, 2012 -
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So, it would appear that Google have changed their search algorithms. Using search queries that would have previously returned hundreds of results I am getting a handful of results which are mostly irrelevant / gibberish. Any ideas how I can go back to the "old" Google? Thanks!
posted by FuckingAwesome
on Mar 1, 2012 -
14 answers
Where did Google's advanced search feature disappear to this time, and why do they keep moving it around? Is there any way I can edit my settings so that it's always in a nice visible place?
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posted by codacorolla
on Feb 27, 2012 -
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I have a unique name that, when my first and middle names are transposed, becomes a more common name that is now the moniker of a rather unattractive porn star. How do I fix Google results that turn my unique name into this porn-yielding other version?
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posted by These Birds of a Feather
on Dec 20, 2011 -
28 answers
What are some good strategies for searching for the image of an old puzzle? I have asked here a few times over the years and come up with nothing, unfortunately. At this point I am ready to brute force it and just look at images of puzzles until I find the image of that puzzle. Previous methodology inside.
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posted by cashman
on Oct 14, 2011 -
3 answers
Is this a real Google-thing or some kind of malware scam? Google search suddenly isn't working for me, sometimes.
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posted by Corvid
on Sep 24, 2011 -
28 answers
This question is about as meta as I think I've ever come up with. There's a site that allows you to send a link to a google search, and the resulting page shows the search being typed into google and completed. Maybe I'm having an idiot moment, but I can't think of any way to search for the site without using the words "google" or "search" which obviously obfuscate the results I'm looking for. Anyone know the site I'm referring to?
posted by billyfleetwood
on Sep 16, 2011 -
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Calling SEO/Google Experts: I have a bloglike site for a new company (on Wordpress) and I am trying to make it SEO friendly. Hypothetically, lets assume that the site is about flying lizards and I have named it 'liz.ly'. Every day, new and well written content is added to this site so hopefully in the next few months it will start showing up at a respectable rank on google. BUT:
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posted by london302
on Sep 14, 2011 -
9 answers
You know that text that shows up under the link in a Google search result? Where does it come from? Specific example follows, in which the text is nowhere on the website in question.
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posted by Alaska Jack
on Jul 20, 2011 -
5 answers
Are there high quality internet search engines that recognize boolean rather than a natural language search queries?
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posted by dredge
on Apr 7, 2011 -
8 answers
Is there a way to automatically "force" Google to search for the words I typed in, without having to manually include "+" before every single term? I do sometimes utilize fuzzy search, but I'm finding that lately, it is doing more harm than good, and nearly every search requires me to go back and add "+".
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posted by lesli212
on Mar 18, 2011 -
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Are there any scripts/tricks/bright ideas for how to filter out search results from answers.com, ask.com, yahoo answers and other worthlessly crowdsourced Q&A forums that always seem to make up the first page of anything I google?
Present company excluded, of course!
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posted by StopMakingSense
on Jan 2, 2011 -
6 answers
What's a good alternative to Google? Their new algorithm (Caffeine) stresses fresh content and that's not what I always want.
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posted by qsysopr
on Jul 12, 2010 -
11 answers
How do I add new sites to the Google custom search engine that I've created? Strangely, the control panel doesn't give me that option. If this isn't possible, what other tools can I use to specify which sites I want Google to search? This search engine isn't one that I'm publishing; it's for my own use.
posted by Wordwoman
on Jun 26, 2010 -
1 answer
I like the new Google search results layout, but it has killed the Greasemonkey script I use to display results in multiple columns. Is there another script or plugin I can use that is compatible with the new layout?
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posted by Aanidaani
on May 13, 2010 -
2 answers
To SEO people out there ... is it possible to manipulate a small business website to push the business up Google's rankings and get it onto the first page of results?
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posted by chairish
on Apr 27, 2010 -
22 answers
Is there an application that exists which allows the user to cut/paste several emails into large text field, hit enter, and then have it open a separate Firefox tab for each email, displaying the Google search results of each?
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posted by yoyoceramic
on Apr 22, 2010 -
6 answers
Google question: Is it possible to find out how many people are searching using a very specific keyword or phrase (not Google Trends)?
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posted by kmavap
on Feb 18, 2010 -
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I tried searching for a term multiple times (around 100 in a minute) to see if it would come up on google trends, and now I can't search on google at all. Does anyone know how many times you can search a single term on Google before they shut you down for "sending automated queries"? How long does the lockdown lasts?
posted by numbskeleton
on Jan 25, 2010 -
6 answers
When I search for something by typing keywords into the Firefox address bar, it directs me to Yahoo search results. It used to function more like Google's "I'm feeling lucky" option, and I'd like to get that functionality back instead of these incessant Yahoo search results.
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posted by clearly
on Jan 20, 2010 -
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Is there a way to seamlessly add a .pdf opened in Quick View (from a Google search result) to my Google docs? (Or even to save one to docs from the main search page?)
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posted by OmieWise
on Jan 13, 2010 -
2 answers
Remove these crappy ultra-long links from my Google Search Results when I right-click!
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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?
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posted by nolnar
on Aug 28, 2009 -
5 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?
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posted by jaseaco
on May 3, 2009 -
2 answers
I deleted the Google search engine from my Firefox search engine bar. How do I add it back?
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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
