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Posted by Ed on February 4, 2008, 11:07 pm
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> I gave up searching for a web page dedicated to accepting user
> improvement suggestions for Google's basic search engine. All I could
> find was a few examples of new apps in beta.
>
> I hope that someone at Google is monitoring this group.
That would be a surprise
> I frequently search for scientific and medical information. When I am
> in a hurry it would be most helpful if the search results page
> contained indicator words to tell me if:
>
> 1) access to the linked page is free and complete
>
> 2) there is a free abstract but detailed information requires a 'pay
> per view' subscription
>
> 3) the entire linked page requires payment up front.
That sounds familiar, I've run into a similar problem when trying to
find answers to software questions... most of the SERPs are places like
expertsexchange that give you a question / teaser and require paid
subscription to actually read the replies.
> In some instances, it would be even more helpful if there were a
> filter setting in 'preferences' that would allow the filtering of
> results to block types (3) and or (2) above.
What I ended up doing was put "-expertsexchange" in the query
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