After all the buzz on October 24 - Google launched Google CSE (custom search engine) a system for customizing the search engine around a given theme - here are 3 systems that have already been transplanted onto Google. The theme? - throwing out the Ads.
The first one uses Google CSE, the second a simple macro and the third…you tell me!
They each try in their own way, like King Canute on a beach, to send back the invading tide of unwanted advertising from whence it came. It is a fact, that a small number of sites take up a vast amount of real estate in the results pages. Add to that: shopping comparison sites, affiliate link sites, Pay Per Cick ad sites and the rest…So lets see if they get their feet wet.
MySERP is a vertical search engine, that is in my mind, the most serious of the three, in this quest a little upopian maybe. It proposes a Google that is ‘cleaner’ with the help of a filter and the possibility to turn it off for comparisons. A research for ‘ipod’ for example, compared to a classic search, is in effect, quite revealing.
GiveMeBackMyGoogle developed by Oliver Humpage who didn’t wait for the launching of Google CSE to write a macro of his own that removes a whole list of Humpage blacklisted websites from the resulting pages.
FindIsland is certainly the most bizarre and the most utopian as well, I’m shure you will agree. Has the author the legal right? Does he live on an Island that Google agents are trying to find perhaps? On FindIsland there is no sponsored advertising on the right side of the page, at all. What’s more he promises to pay us for using his service by a system of points-for-prizes.
Take a look yourselves & make some comparisons of the results they give you with the results of an un-vetted Google.
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