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		squarefoot on March 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen "Google's removal of the discussions filter was a big blow to the openness of the web" This! With that filter I could name a product and find common people talking about it, now all I find is companies selling the product. This is getting even worse when searching political topics because from mixed people discussing the topic I now find only news sites or biased sources promoting their point.

natoliniak on March 13, 2017 [–]

You can use the query below (or something similar) to narrow results to include keywords found in popular discussion boards (modify it to suit your needs):

"dell latitude" inurl:comments|question|forum|viewthread|showthread|viewtopic|showtopic|"index.php?topic" | intext:"answer"|"reading this topic"|"next thread"|"next topic"|"send private message"|"reply"

squarefoot on March 13, 2017 | [–]

Clever trick. Thanks!

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