I thought of writing an open letter to Google. Here are the ideas:
- Using the above and more advanced tools to penalize sites and IP's. I know it can hurt my own sites, since I am on a shared Ip. May be it is already penalized
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- Search clusters and the ongoing Google suggest discussion.
- Personally I find the clusters on Clusty the clustering search engine very useful. Clusty is a Meta (who cares?) SE I use more and more.
- Google suggest combined with
Searches related to:
have a great potential. But it could be combined (with an option or tool) like Clusty's clusters that will make Google search even better.
- Visual search. How up to date are Google? I don't think of image or video search.
P.S.
Google is my default SE on Opera and Clusty the default engine on the
speed dial page (you have fairly good control of domains / Ip's with that configuration).
Configuration on Opera is very easy.
"Adding new searches
Opera comes with a useful set of default search engines, but you may want to add some of your own favorite searches to the mix.
Adding a new search is most conveniently done as follows: (My addition: CTRL + F12 gives you an overview)
- Go to the site that has the search you want.
- Right-click the search field.
- Select "Create search" from the context menu.
- Edit the name of the search engine to your liking.
- Add a short keyword to be able to use the search engine directly from the address field, as described above.
- Click "OK", and the new search is added and can be used anywhere within Opera.
If you want to make the new search your default search engine, expand the dialog by clicking the "Details" button, and check the "Use as default search engine" box.
You can also make it your default search engine for Speed Dial by checking the "Use as Speed Dial search engine" box.
In the expanded dialog, you can also edit the search string directly and specify that the POST method should be used for this search".