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I do wish there was a human curated search engine. Eg everytime you search for something and you find a useless spam site, you can flag it and then it's removed
by smiler 16y ago
I do wish there was a human curated search engine. Eg everytime you search for something and you find a useless spam site, you can flag it and then it's removed from the search.
I'm sure something like that must exist already - does anyone know?
- sunir 16y agoGoogle tried this. It was called SearchWiki. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-searc...
- nostrademons 16y agoOr was called SearchWiki. It turned out that nobody liked or used it, so it was removed.
- gojomo 16y agoI liked the small satisfaction I got from 'X'-ing out spammy sites!
- code_duck 16y agoI believe it only had an effect on your personal view of Google. Otherwise, it would have been abused by competitors and 'SEO experts'.
- _delirium 16y agoI would've used that more if X-ing them out kept them out! Afaict, it only removed them from that particular search, and if you searched again, they'd show up again.
- CamperBob 16y agoThen the spammers would use bots or cheap Chinese labor to downvote their competitors. It would just move the problem down a level. For this sort of thing to work, the curators must be trusted, which is expensive. Such an engine might be worthwhile to a small subset of users, though.
- jsrfded 16y agoblekko lets you slash out individual sites from the search results. The exclusion just applies to you so spammers can't downvote reasonable sites. Has been popular to eliminate ehow.com from results. ehow isn't enough over the line for us to ban from the crawl entirely, but a lot of people don't ever want to see them in their results. we're still in private beta, but happy to give invites to anyone here who wants one. just email me rich at blekko.