topic Re: Problem with deleting search results in Discussions

Problem with deleting search results

Archaosenzo — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:29:28 GMT

Deleting search results doesn't seem to work at all on Google
I am French, I write in French on google
I have tried on DuckDuckGo and Google Search

Example:
I type Amazone to get results on what we mean by an « amazone woman ».
I could have looked for results on the Amazone river which is one of the longest in the world...
In French there is an "e" at the end, but it seems that it doesn’t in English, in both cases

So “obviously” I only come across Amazon.com results!
And this on all the first pages, hundred of results without any amazone woman in sight nor any 7000 km long river!!!

I then type: amazone -amazon
only 4 results, and still no results on amazone, but Amazon.com always in first position…

So I type “amazone -site:https://www.amazon.fr”
I get exactly the same result as initially in the first case. weird right?

And it doesn't get any better with « amazone » -site:https://www.amazon.fr
I came across an agricultural machinery site: amazone.fr
but this seems normal since it involves excluding a word in the name of the site
AND always amazon.fr first (and nothing else relating to a woman or a river, sorry to insist on this !)

That's annoying, isn't it?
So obviously it's better if I search for "amazones" in the plural
Or even “Fleuve Amazone”
But is this normal???

This is just an exemple, but can we fear that a powerful commercial site could override the protection instructions put in place ?

Re: Problem with deleting search results

Agentvirtuel — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:42:18 GMT

Hello

Take a look https://forums.mozfr.org/viewtopic.php?p=935419
https://www.google.com/search?q=amazone+-inurl:amazon
https://www.google.com/search?q=amazone+-inurl:amazon+-inurl:amazone
https://www.google.com/search?q=amazone%20women+-inurl:amazon

Re: Problem with deleting search results

Archaosenzo — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:01:23 GMT

Well done, it’s not easy to find this answer!
So I typed: amazone -inurl:amazon
And I got results for what I was looking for, no more problems with the Amazon results!
But it doesn't work on DuckkDuckGo, only on the Google search page...
And Amazon doesn't let itself be forgotten either since the advertising for their site appears large on the right of the results page!!!
Thank you anyway !

Re: Problem with deleting search results

Agentvirtuel — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:29:37 GMT

Hello

@Archaosenzo wrote:
And Amazon doesn't let itself be forgotten either since the advertising for their site appears large on the right of the results page!!!