# How to keep Google from culling my search **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 24, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315 "2011-12-24T23:14:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/1 "2011-12-24T23:14:42Z")
[http://www.google.com/search?q=arrow+root+in+egg+drop+soup%3F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#pq=how+to+keep+google+from+calling+my+search&hl=en&cp=26&gs\_id=g0&xhr=t&q=How+to+keep+Google+from+culling+my+search&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=How+to+keep+Google+from+culling+my+search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs\_sm=&gs\_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r\_gc.r\_pw.,cf.osb&fp=d6b7c50fe1987ca1&biw=1440&bih=751](http://www.google.com/search?q=arrow+root+in+egg+drop+soup%3F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#pq=how+to+keep+google+from+calling+my+search&hl=en&cp=26&gs_id=g0&xhr=t&q=How+to+keep+Google+from+culling+my+search&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=How+to+keep+Google+from+culling+my+search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=d6b7c50fe1987ca1&biw=1440&bih=751) Calling? I want to know how to undo the search responses that are targeting me, and do a free form search. I cannot find the things I used to find in Google Search anymore. As if, I imagined it all. I tried “How to keep Google from truncating my search”…notta [http://www.google.com/search?q=arrow+root+in+egg+drop+soup%3F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&source=hp&q=How+to+keep+Google+from+truncating+my+search&pbx=1&oq=How+to+keep+Google+from+truncating+my+search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs\_sm=e&gs\_upl=18557l23452l0l24683l17l16l0l0l0l4l275l2877l1.9.6l16l0&bav=on.2,or.r\_gc.r\_pw.,cf.osb&fp=d6b7c50fe1987ca1&biw=1440&bih=751](http://www.google.com/search?q=arrow+root+in+egg+drop+soup%3F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&source=hp&q=How+to+keep+Google+from+truncating+my+search&pbx=1&oq=How+to+keep+Google+from+truncating+my+search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=18557l23452l0l24683l17l16l0l0l0l4l275l2877l1.9.6l16l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=d6b7c50fe1987ca1&biw=1440&bih=751) I am specifically looking for **“the reference of”** Arrow Root in Egg Drop Soup as the thickener. It makes a clear gel rather than a opaque one as in corn starch in a clear gravy. All I get is some crappy ass Ideas of Egg Drop Soup…with Corn Starch and Ramen Noodles? [http://www.google.com/search?q=egg+drop+soup&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=egg+drop+soup&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=vid&source=og&sa=N&tab=wv&ei=KVv2TrGuE8zAtgeX9cDPBg&bav=on.2,or.r\_gc.r\_pw.,cf.osb&fp=93a36af9fc6717de&biw=1440&bih=751](http://www.google.com/search?q=egg+drop+soup&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=egg+drop+soup&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=vid&source=og&sa=N&tab=wv&ei=KVv2TrGuE8zAtgeX9cDPBg&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=93a36af9fc6717de&biw=1440&bih=751) No where close to the Authentic Vids I had seen a few years back. I posted this before here about google… Im asking HOW TO TURN IT OFF. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/2 "2011-12-24T23:29:08Z")
What the hell is an Authentic Ramen Noodles Recipe? And why is it in my search? I’ve seen Depression cooking…[Great Depression Cooking - Egg Drop Soup - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREFkmrrYiw) What does that have to do with “AUTHENTIC EGG DROP SOUP”? ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/3 "2011-12-24T23:50:15Z")
Are you logged on to Gmail, or some other Google service when you do this? ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/4 "2011-12-24T23:57:21Z")
No I am not…I clear browser with CCleaner after EVERY closing and shutdown. I use my anti hack/virus software pretty often. Its as if, all the “Paid Ads Sites” are top billing regardless of search terms. Even You Tube brings up the same garbage in the same way. I cannot find anything other than PAID AD SITES!!! It has become insufferable. :mad: ( I close browser and clear after using facebook also, before opening to other stuff I dont want tracked, like Straight Dope. 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/5 "2011-12-25T00:15:24Z")
Okay, well, have you tried creating a new Google account from scratch? Then log on to the new account, and try searching while logged on. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/6 "2011-12-25T00:30:57Z")
I can’t figure out what you are asking. What do you mean by “truncated”? Are you saying that you are searching for egg drop soup arrow root or authentic egg drop soup and getting just results for egg drop soup? Or are you perhaps complaining that the search results aren’t showing up? If the latter, can you tell us what does show up for you? (I’d honestly suspect a virus that is redirecting you to a fake Google page.) ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/7 "2011-12-25T00:54:06Z")
Here let me [Google that for you.](http://bit.ly/s3G5Up) Ummm, I’m not seeing any paid sites with this search. What am I missing? ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/8 "2011-12-25T01:00:10Z")
The results aren’t random from specific input like normal. They are the SAME results no matter what the input, and sometimes nothing to do with the input. If I search “egg drop soup”, I expect just that. If I input “Authentic Egg Drop Soup”, I expect that plus something more specific. If I input “Authentic Restaurant Style Chinese Egg Drop Soup”, I would expect an even MORE specific outcome. But NO…all the outcomes are the same. As if, I’m stuck in a North Korea of Google Search. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/9 "2011-12-25T01:02:17Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Here let me [Google that for you.](http://bit.ly/s3G5Up) > Ummm, I’m not seeing any paid sites with this search. What am I missing? > **[Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=eggdrop%2Bsoup%2Brecipe%2B%2Barrowroot#pws=0&q=eggdrop+soup+recipe+%2Barrowroot&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=vid&source=og&sa=N&tab=wv&ei=sHX2TrmoFYShtwfDuIHQBg&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=93a36af9fc6717de&biw=1440&bih=751)** same results until they no longer apply to even egg or drop or even soup. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/10 "2011-12-25T01:03:39Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I can’t figure out what you are asking. What do you mean by “truncated”? Are you saying that you are searching for egg drop soup arrow root or authentic egg drop soup and getting just results for egg drop soup? Or are you perhaps complaining that the search results aren’t showing up? > > If the latter, can you tell us what does show up for you? (I’d honestly suspect a virus that is redirecting you to a fake Google page.) I think she’s talking about user targeted searches. Google I’ve noticed tends to base search results at least partially on what it knows of you. Either that or the page rank on the site she remembers changed. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/11 "2011-12-25T01:07:35Z")
> [@Jamicat](#): > > The results aren’t random from specific input like normal. > > They are the SAME results no matter what the input, and sometimes nothing to do with the input. > > If I search “egg drop soup”, I expect just that. > > If I input “Authentic Egg Drop Soup”, I expect that plus something more specific. > > If I input “Authentic Restaurant Style Chinese Egg Drop Soup”, I would expect an even MORE specific outcome. > > But NO…all the outcomes are the same. > > As if, I’m stuck in a North Korea of Google Search. :dubious: Oh I get it now. Try putting all those terms seperatly in quotes. Like try: “authentic” “restaurant style” “chinese” “egg drop soup” ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/12 "2011-12-25T01:10:15Z")
**Jamicat** the problem with this thread is that you’re just linking to a page of results without sufficient explanation of what you’re seeing. If the problem is just with your machine, a page of results would appear differently for those of us who are contemplating your problem. Can you be specific about, say, the URL for the first three or five results you’re getting for each kind of search? What browser are you using? ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/13 "2011-12-25T01:19:32Z")
The question isn’t about soup. That’s just an illustration. It’s about being stuck in the North Korea of Google Search. There was 100 vids on “egg drop soup”, all gone, some were real cooking shows and real chefs, a very large contingent of different ideas. All I get now is garbage from Joe youtube with his raman noodles. I only noticed this with cooking because I have used alot of recipes from the net, and search vids. Even the Baking bread ones are depleting to joe bread maker on youtube, instead of the other vids from say…Tony’s Pizzaria in Brooklyn. The vids are out there, just not giving me the hits to them. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/14 "2011-12-25T01:23:16Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > I think she’s talking about user targeted searches. Google I’ve noticed tends to base search results at least partially on what it knows of you. > Either that or the page rank on the site she remembers changed. Ok, how do you turn off the “TARGET SEARCH FUNCTION”? It’s not working for me 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/15 "2011-12-25T01:39:17Z")
One last thing on the “egg drop soup” search… How many Asian’s do you see in the vid section? I get NONE…ZERO! even after 10 pages of results…ok maybe one, but that was Chinese wings or something. When I looked this up a few years ago, \*\*ALL \*\*the pages were Asians and a spattering of other ethnicities. What do you see on your searches? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/16 "2011-12-25T01:52:56Z")
> [@Jamicat](#): > > When I looked this up a few years ago, \*\*ALL \*\*the pages were Asians and a spattering of other ethnicities. Years? Google results change day to day, sometimes hour-to-hour. Of course you’re not going to get the same results now. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/17 "2011-12-25T02:10:24Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Years? Google results change day to day, sometimes hour-to-hour. Of course you’re not going to get the same results now. No …really. If you search “BBQ”, your gonna expect a lot of different things. If you search “Southern BBQ”, you expect the things like Nothern BBQ to be culled. If you search “Louisiana Style BBQ”, you expect all other that aren’t Louisiana style BBQ to be omitted. BUT NOooo… Google is like a Badger… It don’t give a we got pigeon eggs. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/18 "2011-12-25T03:18:21Z")
When I do those three searches (BBQ, Southern BBQ, Louisiana Style BBQ) I get three different sets of results. Similarly, when I do “Egg Drop Soup”, “Authentic Egg Drop Soup” and “Authentic Restaurant Style Chinese Egg Drop Soup” I get three different sets of results, though with some overlap. It sounds like you are wanting Google to do an exact word search. If the page doesn’t contain one of the words you entered, you don’t want it in your results. That is a valid desire, and it is annoying to me that there really isn’t a reliable way to force it any more, but that isn’t the way Google works. ---
**Author:** ![Parenchyma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Parenchyma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parenchyma)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/19 "2011-12-25T06:04:59Z")
Is “verbatim word search” what you’re looking for? It’s a less obvious search option now: > **[Responding To Complaints, Google Adds Verbatim Search Results](https://searchengineland.com/responding-to-complaints-google-adds-verbatim-search-results-101226)** > > A couple of weeks ago, Google eliminated the "+" operator from its set of tools that allow you to more precisely specify what you're searching for. The ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315/20 "2011-12-25T06:49:44Z")
> [@Jamicat](#): > > I cannot find anything other than PAID AD SITES!!! Does it really surprise you that these particular turds continue to float? How much are you paying to Google again? Remember, as Facebook helpfully informed me, if you’re not paying for the service you’re not the customer. You’re the product. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-keep-google-from-culling-my-search/607315.md?page=2)