If you’ve seen givemebackmygoogle.com, odds are you’re wondering how to make sure those godawful affiliate sites stay out of your search results forever. I’m gonna show you how to do so using my browser of choice, OmniWeb. Google being a pretty clever platform, and OmniWeb being the most kick ass browser on the planet, it’s really simple to do.
You might wonder why, instead of simply modifying OmniWeb’s default google search shortcut, we’re making a new one. It’s not complicated: this way, if you want to go back to regular old google, it’s just a mouse-click away, no harm, no foul.
First things first
Open OmniWeb. Simple enough, no?
Once OW is open and loaded, click OmniWeb -> Preferences. Once you’re in the Preferences panel, click on the Shortcuts icon. Here’s where OmniWeb stores all the available search functions, for the search bar in the top-right of it’s default window. In the left side of the preferences window, you’ll have a listing of the currently available ones. We’re going to add a new one.
Adding A Shortcut
Adding a shortcut in OmniWeb is simple: click the + sign at the bottom left of the window. This will add a new shortcut at the bottom of our list, with the Name and Keyword ‘somewhere’. Clicking on this will bring up it’s relevant information in the right pane of the preferences window, so we can edit it.
You can name the shortcut whatever you like. For simplicity’s sake, I’m going to call it ‘GoogFilter’, and make it’s shortcut goog@. Pick something easy to remember for the shortcut.
Pasting In The URL
Here’s the real meat of this tutorial, adding the proper options to a normal google search. In the URL field, paste in the following text:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=%@+-site%3Akelkoo+-site%3Aciao+-site%3Abizrate+-site%3Apixmania.co.uk+-site%3Apixmania.com+-site%3Adealtime.com+-site%3Apricerunner.co.uk+-site%3Apricerunner.com+-site%3Apricegrabber+-site%3Apricewatch+-site%3Ashopping.msn.com+-site%3Aresellerratings+-site%3Aepinions.com+-site%3Anextag+-site%3Acomparestoreprices.co.uk+-site%3Aunbeatable.co.uk+-site%3Aebay+-site%3Ashopping.com+-site%3Ashopbot
Make sure you copy and paste it, instead of trying to type it all in like an insane person, otherwise you could miss something important.
That’s Pretty Much It, Really
Close your preferences window (OmniWeb saved all of our changes automatically. Don’t you love it?), and click on the magnifying glass in the search bar up top. Select our new GoogFilter shortcut, and type something in to search. If you did what I told you to, and I honestly can’t imagine why you wouldn’t, then you should be getting considerably less spam results in your google searches, especially for things like movies and consumer electronics. Enjoy!
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