On 12/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Boak</b> <sboak@***.com.au> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I seem to be having trouble getting google to give sensible results these days<br>- as an example, I'm getting a flood of .gz files with almost every search of<br>any sort of linux keywords. I searched for "exim4 listenonpublic" (without
<br>the quotes), and out of 57 results, about 40 were .gz files two or three<br>megabytes in size without any indication of the contents.<br><br>Including nonsensical results such as:<br><br><a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.34-5ubuntu1.1.diff.gz">
security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.34-5ubuntu1.1.diff.gz</a><br>File Format: Unrecognized - View as HTML<br><br>If the format is unrecognisable, does it make sense to view it as HTML?<br><br>I had to try it - clicking on the 'HTML' link gives: "Sorry, no content found
<br>for this URL".<br><br>So the bottom line is, is there any way to tell google to exclude particular<br>file types from it's search?<br></blockquote><div><br><snip><br>The same search gave me the results as -
<br><font size="-1">'Results <b>1</b> - <b>20</b> of about <b>194</b> <b>English</b> pages for <b><b>exim4 listenonpublic</b></b>. (<b>0.70</b> seconds) '<br></font><br>I do have preferences saved for google, but the only option I believe that I have changed is to give English results only. Do you get the same results from a different browser or computer, or a different domain
i.e. <a href="http://google.com">google.com</a> vs <a href="http://google.com.au">google.com.au</a> ?<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
And is anyone else getting the feeling it's time to find a new search engine?</blockquote><div>I generally find that trial and error with more specific or conversely, more general search terms usually bring the results that I am after.
<br> </div><a href="http://www.googleguide.com">http://www.googleguide.com</a> or other results from searching for 'exclude particular file types from google search' might help, that is, if google works good enough to give some helpful result?
<br></div></div><br>regards,<br> Nathan D.<br><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>natdan at <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a><br>2000+ Mbs of email !!<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~