[Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

[Andrew Gray]

On 8 December 2010 11:46, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> For some time i used to fight this problem by adding "-site:wikipedia.org-site:
> wapedia.mobi -site:miniwiki.org" etc. to my search queries, but i hit a
> wall: Google limits the search string to 32 words, and today there are many
> more than 32 sites that clone Wikipedia, so this trick is also becoming
> useless.

As noted above you can use -wikipedia; alternately, keywords common on
mirrors, such as -mediawiki, -gfdl could be worth trying.

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- Andrew Gray
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