I’m a new user and just trying to find my way around in this great tool.
I defined a search query with some of the features from DevonAgent (OPT) and also with Google Search operator.
i.e.
Exclude a word /site
Add a dash (-) before a word or site to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.
jaguar speed -car or pandas -site:wikipedia.org
Sample:
Car AND (Kühlergrill OPT 67dHH53651) AND (A10 OR A10/C10) -gebraucht -site:youtube.com -site:pkw-forum.de -site:wikipedia.org -site:autoplenum.de
Now I’m not sure if this mixture will be correctly used by DA.
2 Questions:
Will this search be correctly interpreted/executed by DA?
Is there somewhere a complete overview of all expressions which are possible to create the query?
I would check out the DEVONagent Help or manual. It has a section on this and designing a query. And if you’re reading through the entire manual, there are other examples throughout the text.
No, that’s not possible as DEVONagent uses a generic syntax for all plugins & search engines. But you could create a site specific plugin instead if you’re searching a certain site regularly.
I’m looking for a solution that would help to narrow down the results, means if I search for products (looking for seller offering the defined product in the web) I want to exclude results from certain domains i.e. from forums, boards, newspaper, wikiepedia.org etc.
So if I identify those sites prior to start the search, I would love to exclude them from being collected or processed…at the end I don’t want any link from that sites in my results.
Sites/Links can be excluded via Preferences > Search and the command Data > Delete & Exclude Domain removes both the selected results & all other results from the selected domains and updates the preferences automatically.
OK, that works, but then for all searches I will do. Any chance to have this feature as part of the search set, so that I can configure the “not wanted domain” per Search Set?
Use the Devonagent NOT operator in combination with the Google schemes:
panda AND NOT site:wikipedia.org instead of panda AND -site:wikipedia.org
To see what query was actually submitted to Google, look in DA’s Log tab after submitting a test search. From there we can see that the above query sent google.com/search?as_q=panda … -8&start=0
You can copy a Google query out of the DevonAgent log and paste into the url of a browser. Then, when you submit it, besides giving you the results, Google will also reprint how they interpreted it. For example, pasting the URL in step 2 yields Google’s feedback:
pandas -site:wikipedia.org
Which is I think confirms using DA’s NOT with site: is what you wanted