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Blogger to WordPress User-Guide Series [Announcement]

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 07:34 AM PDT

Early this month we announced an affiliate program with our Blogger to WordPress Migration service. This service has migrated many blogs onto the WordPress platform.

We got a lot of queries from clients (who had migrated newly to WordPress) about features which are integral to WordPress platform. We had initially planned a simple FAQ with some common issues which are faced by bloggers new to WordPress.

The idea further developed into creating a Blogger to WordPress user-guide on our Blogger to WP website.

Nitun Lanjewar, who heads technical support for Blogger To WordPress Migration service along with me (Aditya Kane) have authored the series. There are about 15 posts in all, we will publish one post every day on Blogger To WP blog.

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Exclude a website from real-time search results with Google [Tips]

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:17 AM PDT

Yesterday I covered real-time results with Google search. The results shown with real-time are continuous as they are published on the internet. I feel this is great and I can even create Google alerts directly from the search page.

The only issue was if I was searching for a real-time results about a certain event most results would be picked up from Twitter. I did not like that and wished I could exclude Twitter for real-time search results.

How it works!

It is quite simple. Just type in your search query and search for it. I searched for “Cricket” and got many results. Most of these results were from Twitter.
To exclude search results showing links from Twitter I just had to enter “Cricket -site:twitter.com“
Immediately the real-time results being shown had tweets omitted as search results.:-)

Extra Tips

This trick works even with normal Google search results. This is a great way to search for something and exclude results from popular social networking websites.
This tip can also work with Twitter search. For example search for “#India -username” (do not use @username and use only username) and you can get all tweets with India tag but a particular username’s tweets are omitted. Helps to omit spam.