Google-search – Is Google search engine excludes some results to be shown

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I am sure that I have searched terms in Google 2 or 3 years age, and too many results were found, and many of them have been downloaded. But now, with the same criteria, no results will be found!

My searches were based on searching specific terms in FTP servers. The results were directing me to FTP servers that contain that specific file, and in many cases, the neighbour files were also related. In that time the Google result list was rich and many sites were found, but now almost nothing. I have tried an advanced search with no results. It seems that Google is hiding the results since in some other search engine, many results can be found but it is very limited.

My question has two parts:

Does Google change his searching methodology to hide some results?
Is there any way to say to Google to retrieve the old results?
If it is not possible, is there any alternative search engine to be
used as a deep search engine, powerful as Google?

Best Answer

Yes, Google uses an algorithm to show you things that it may interest you, and so many thinks that it think it's not what you are looking for are not shown.

Mabye you can try Tools > All results > Verbatim, that it will "cancel" the Google search algorithm and show everything as it goes. Also you can try DuckDuckGo.

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On Google:

Do a search as usual
Click on the Search tools option in the menu bar and then on Custom range
Pick your desired date or type it into the To:-field
Click on Go.

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I found an elegant solution to this problem using Google Custom Search.

To see the result in action, go to this custom search engine.

To set up your own version, go to google.com/cse and:

click "create a custom search engine"
put whatever you want on the setup page, but use a nonexistent url for the "sites to search" box
click "next" twice (change the look if you like)
click on the link "change the basics" under "next steps"
at the bottom of the "basics" page, check "search the entire web but emphasize included sites"
uncheck "Show automatic thumbnail"
save changes
click on the name of your search engine at the top of the "basics" page to use it.

To use your search in a URL (to replace your existing search engine):

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=000628392187335527771:2-d3w-aefr4&q=searchterms

You'll need to replace the cx variable with the value from your own custom search engine and replace "searchterms" with %s or whatever you usually use in your URL to indicate keyword placement.

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