Ecig News - Search Filtering

[WinstonSmith]

Hi, does anybody know if there is a way to filter the press releases out of google news search result or if there is a better search engine that will. I hate having to scour through a gagillion ads and SBwire PR releases whenever I try to do a news search for electronic cigarettes. Google often times has the press releases identified in parenthesis but I cannot find a search setting or option that will remove them from the search.

 

[Ken_A]

will this help?
ecig - Google Search

I just did a search on ecig....

 

[WinstonSmith]

I was looking for a way to filter out sources that are press releases like SBWire and PR Newswire which are usually the vast majority of the results and make it more difficult to find the few items that appear in regular news sources.

 

[DummyMe]

I hate all search engines. They all suck. No matter what you search for it comes up buy (whatever) on Ebay. I once broke a bone in my foot & it literally told me I could buy a broken Tibia on Ebay. I'm very curious about filtering content on search engines myself.

I was looking for land in North Carolina (I found it!) & 95 % of the output was in every other state, including 75 % of it in Oregon & Washington state! I absolutely HATE Google, Yahoo & Bing.

End of rant, sorry.

 

[Ken_A]

OK - how about using
ecig -Newswire

the "minus sign" means to exclude
ecig - Google Search

 

[WinstonSmith]

I actually tried that with "press release" using a variety of different combinations of minuses and quotes. -press -release worked the best of those but did not catch them all as it searches from the content and not the source label. That and it would filter out a legitimate source if it had either word in the article. Typing in each source separately would be too much as there are too many PR sources. I was hoping there was an option or setting that would simply allow you to filter out such sources in a simple manner, such as it is for date filtering etc.

 

[Crazyinariz]

Out of curiosity, how much does a broken tibia sell for on ebay? I don't need one right now but it's nice to know that they're out there...