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Every time I reached the Forbes website I was really wondering if there is any option to hide a website from Google search results. So, I would like to never ha

by XCSme 11y ago

Every time I reached the Forbes website I was really wondering if there is any option to hide a website from Google search results. So, I would like to never have any result from forbes.com (even if I search forbes). Do you know if there are Chrome Extensions or settings you can turn on in Google Search to hide certain websites?

ValentineC 11y ago
There's a Chrome extension (by Google, no less) for this! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
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NathanKP 11y ago
This is the official Google extension for doing that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
- sosuke 11y ago
  Wow! Thank you very much I never thought of looking for an extension. For a very short time I found that feature in my search results directly. Then it just went away.
  - dunham 11y ago
    Yeah, Google did that for a short time. I used to use it to filter out content farms. They've gotten better at filtering content farms since then, and dropped the feature - probably because it was too expensive resource-wise to personalize results like that.
- FilterSweep 11y ago
  Not sure if it's very functional. I blocked W3Schools + Wildcards (because I'd rather read MDN) and after a few months of working their results continued appearing at the top of my page. There are a few blog posts around the net where some users have tried similar and found that W3 schools was also serving up content from another place that had not been blocked.
- r1ch 11y ago
  Any idea why this needs such wide permissions like managing my apps and extensions and reading my history?
Animats 11y ago
Now that's a thought. In our Ad Limiter add-on (Firefox and Chrome), we have the ability to delete and reorder items in Google Search results. Right now, we only do that for Google's ads. Maybe we should be more aggressive. Is there a list of sites with ad blocker detectors? We could easily move such sites to the bottom of search results.
Matt3o12_ 11y ago
Well, you can remove Forbes temporarily from the search results: Whatever -site:forbes.com Of course this would not scale well, because you can't block all sites. This is better then the chrome extension that only removes the HTML because if the first 10 results were from Forbes, you will not get an empty page.
readams 11y ago
There used to be but Google got rid of it. I used it to block the worst google spam offenders back in the day like expert sex change and huffington post.

by XCSme 11y ago

ValentineC 11y ago

There's a Chrome extension (by Google, no less) for this! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

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NathanKP 11y ago

This is the official Google extension for doing that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

sosuke 11y ago
Wow! Thank you very much I never thought of looking for an extension. For a very short time I found that feature in my search results directly. Then it just went away.
- dunham 11y ago
  Yeah, Google did that for a short time. I used to use it to filter out content farms. They've gotten better at filtering content farms since then, and dropped the feature - probably because it was too expensive resource-wise to personalize results like that.
FilterSweep 11y ago
Not sure if it's very functional. I blocked W3Schools + Wildcards (because I'd rather read MDN) and after a few months of working their results continued appearing at the top of my page. There are a few blog posts around the net where some users have tried similar and found that W3 schools was also serving up content from another place that had not been blocked.
r1ch 11y ago
Any idea why this needs such wide permissions like managing my apps and extensions and reading my history?

Animats 11y ago

Now that's a thought. In our Ad Limiter add-on (Firefox and Chrome), we have the ability to delete and reorder items in Google Search results. Right now, we only do that for Google's ads. Maybe we should be more aggressive. Is there a list of sites with ad blocker detectors? We could easily move such sites to the bottom of search results.

Matt3o12_ 11y ago

Well, you can remove Forbes temporarily from the search results: Whatever -site:forbes.com Of course this would not scale well, because you can't block all sites. This is better then the chrome extension that only removes the HTML because if the first 10 results were from Forbes, you will not get an empty page.

readams 11y ago

There used to be but Google got rid of it. I used it to block the worst google spam offenders back in the day like expert sex change and huffington post.