Comments on: Try out my Google Co-op Custom Search Engines http://techblog.touchbasic.com/html/try-out-my-google-co-op-custom-search-engines/ Techblog is collection of articles covering a wide variety of tech related topics including: Linux, Microsoft, code, design, wordpress, security, new media and more. Site updated regularly; search by category, title, date, or tag. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:24:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Putch http://techblog.touchbasic.com/html/try-out-my-google-co-op-custom-search-engines/#comment-3493 Putch Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:20:33 +0000 http://techblog.touchbasic.com/html/try-out-my-google-co-op-custom-search-engines/#comment-3493 Upon checking this out, three features stood out: 1) You can exclude sites that you do not want in the results 2) You can easily do so using the Google Marker 3) Anyone can volunteer to help So we decided to throw up an experiment to encourage everyone to mark spam sites to be excluded from search results. Working together as a community we may be able to radically improve the quality of the search results (or perhaps just get in a blacklisting war?) The result is Putch - http://www.putch.com Upon checking this out, three features stood out:
1) You can exclude sites that you do not want in the results
2) You can easily do so using the Google Marker
3) Anyone can volunteer to help

So we decided to throw up an experiment to encourage everyone to mark spam sites to be excluded from search results.

Working together as a community we may be able to radically improve the quality of the search results (or perhaps just get in a blacklisting war?)

The result is Putch - http://www.putch.com

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