Re: Suggestions needed for non-personalized web searches of campus

[Nathan Zierfuss <nathan.zierfuss () ALASKA EDU>]

We received some information via our abuse@ email address that suggested
using this search string in Google

no OR without prescription site:YOUR.edu

and located a few sites that had been victims of this.
Nathan

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, James H. Moore <jhmiso () rit edu> wrote:

> I have been using Google alerts to find drug back linking on websites.  It
> started to become less effective a couple of years ago.  My suspicion is
> that Google's algorithms are getting more personalized ( for discussion
> see:  The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli
> Parise<http://www.amazon.com/Eli-Pariser/e/B004W4ERWM/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1>r)
>  In any case, since I rarely search for viagra or cialis, when I use Google
> Alerts search RIT for viagra or cialis, I get no hits.  But today, a
> colleague, running the same set of Google Alerts did get a hit. Grrr.
>
> All of this is driven by "relevance" calculations.  Anyone know a way to
> get around relevance in search engines (Google especially)?  Of do I bite
> the bullet and use my own web spider for our website.
>
>
> Jim
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