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I installed a browser extension that adds a blocklist to google's search results. So every time I visit a '10 wierd hacks to...' type of page I block the entir
by IpV8 8y ago
I installed a browser extension that adds a blocklist to google's search results. So every time I visit a '10 wierd hacks to...' type of page I block the entire domain from ever showing up in my results again. It take a while to filter them all out, but it drastically increased my search experience. Anyways I use duck duck go nowadays so now my plugin is irrelevant...
- fps_doug 8y agoSame here. There's still times where a !g actually improves the results but usually duckduckgo's results are fine.
- snaky 8y agoI wish there were a way to exchange that block lists between the users of this extension.
- stefanfisk 8y agoWhich extension are you using? Personal Blocklist broke for me a while back, and now my days are filled with scrolling past w3schools.com to get to developer.mozilla.org
- dhimes 8y agoA duck duck go search of something like <what I'm looking up> javascript mdn give me developer.mozilla.org at the top every time. It's somehow better than site:developer.mozilla.org for some weird reason.
- frosted-flakes 8y agoJust put !mdn in your DDG search and it will take you right to MDN. Same with !g for Google, !w for Wikipedia, etc.
- Nition 8y agoIn Firefox, right-click the search box at developer.mozilla.org and select "Add a Keyword for this search". Put a keyword, something like m. Then you don't even need a search engine. Just type m your search term here in the URL bar to search the site directly.
- dhimes 8y agoWow! That's wicked cool- thanks for the tip! EDIT: I'll add for others that this keyword is stored as a bookmark, so you can find it in your bookmarks and edit/delete/etc.
- dhimes 8y ago!mdn uses mdn's search and returns their results, but I actually prefer ddg's. And using only mdn has the side-benefit of including relevant SO results (and others) lower on the front page sometimes.
- whalabi 8y agoAnecdotally, so many of us do exactly that scroll. It must be millions of us, but apparently not enough for Google to decide MDN > w3schools. Tyranny of the majority I guess.
- jpindar 8y agoGoogle used to have that function. But it was very useful, so of course they removed it.