Searching for Diablo II content but filtering out D2R

[fearedbliss]

Hey folks,

If you are ever searching on Google (or maybe other search engines) for Diablo II content but are flooded by all of the D2R content, you can simply use the " - " sign to exclude any entries with those results. This also works on YouTube as well.

Example:

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Diablo II -resurrected

Will only return Diablo II entries that don't have Resurrected in its name (and maybe other parts of the string).

Here is a list of search operators defined by Google. Let me know if you find any of these useful and which ones you use, maybe I can try them out as well. I've never gotten into refining my search queries too much and just do basic stuff like "define:" .. that's pretty much it LOL.

- fearedbliss

[hedgesparrow]

I often put "Diablo 2", in quotes, to make sure it's searching for the whole phrase. Testing it however, it seems these all produce similar results:

Diablo 2 -resurrected
Diablo II -resurrected
"Diablo 2" -resurrected
"Diablo II" -resurrected

Google is quite smart at realising which Diablo you want, apart from D2R of course!

[fearedbliss]

Yup. As long as you have -resurrected you'll be good. If you just used quotes, it will look for that exact phrase but I'm sure there are many resurrected entries where people just call it Diablo II. So I think the amount of "false positives" should be less if we exclude resurrected, but it will probably be even stronger if we combined it with your "Diablo II" part as well.

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"Diablo II" -resurrected

[Manny]

This is a great tip, thanks for sharing.