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Google Minus Google

By: Philipp Lenssen
2008-08-14

Do you believe Google pushes its own properties too much in their search results? If so, Google Minus Google is for you. Its an unofficial clone of Google that looks just like the real thing...

...except, as the homepage disclaims, youll search Google without getting results from Google sites such as Knol, Blogger and YouTube.

Creator Timo Paloheimo in his blog says Google Minus Google was inspired by an article in NYT about Google becoming a media company. Timo via email writes, The tool is by no means perfect, more of a proof-of concept than a final product.

How does this tool work? Youll see when you perform a search: your query will just be redirected to a normal Google.com search, but it will be appended with -site:google.* -site:google.co.* -site:google.com.* -site:blogger.com -site:youtube.com -site:blogspot.com -site:jaiku.com -site:gmail.com-. Heres hoping the Google lawyers will look at this as a parody...

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About the Author:
Philipp Lenssen from Germany, author of Google Apps Hacks, shares his views & news on the search industry in the daily Google Blogoscoped.


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