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This is awesome! Now if only I could completely remove certain sites from my search results ala the Google Wiki stuff. I'd love to drop swik, and expertsexchang

by miah_ 16y ago

This is awesome! Now if only I could completely remove certain sites from my search results ala the Google Wiki stuff. I'd love to drop swik, and expertsexchange and a few other annoying sites. Its possible this algorithm change will make these sites less annoying to me though.

SkyMarshal 16y ago
Second that. WTB ability to customize my search results by blacklisting certain sites. Big change I know, but would be a hugely useful service Google could provide.
- PaulJDrago 16y ago
  why not just use the - function? Create something like: http://www.google.com/search?q=google+-google.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a http://www.google.com/search?q=google+-google.com&ie=utf... I suspect you could hack together a quick greasemonkey script to automatically inject your negative site list when the URL is generated
  - miah_ 16y ago
    Because Chrome still doesn't sync your "search engine" settings. So maintaining a massive customized search engine across the multiple computers I use would be a pain. If this was a native feature it would work so long as I logged in to Google. Of course, if they fix chrome I'll be happy too.
  - Devilboy 16y ago
    This only works for a small number of blacklisted domains.
- mythobit 16y ago
  I created a site that uses Google CSE to do just this. The link is: http://blacklist-search.appspot.com/ http://blacklist-search.appspot.com/
- PaulJDrago 16y ago
  http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33156 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33156 never mind I just went out and found a script for it...
gregable 16y ago
Bonus trick. Experts Exchange actually often has some good stuff on it. The pages are designed to make you think you have to buy a subscription to see the answers, but if you simply scroll down beyond the ads for their service the answers (which aren't scraped from elsewhere) are visible near the bottom of the page. Yes annoying, I wish they didn't work this way, but there are times that I've found experts exchange to be the most useful result.
- lukeinth 16y ago
  That may be the case sometimes, but as far as I'm concerned they are spam. I would like the option to blacklist sites from my results. Wouldn't it be great if we had choice.
- X-Istence 16y ago
  This only seems to be the case when coming from Google, if you refresh the page or paste the link to a co-worker the results are gone. As for the long list of crap between the question and the answer, use AdBlock to remove that various DIV's.
- Nick_C 16y ago
  > which aren't scraped from elsewhere They used to be scraped from usenet. They may well still be, but I don't have any current evidence. Are they still doing that?

by miah_ 16y ago

SkyMarshal 16y ago

Second that. WTB ability to customize my search results by blacklisting certain sites. Big change I know, but would be a hugely useful service Google could provide.

PaulJDrago 16y ago
why not just use the - function? Create something like: http://www.google.com/search?q=google+-google.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a http://www.google.com/search?q=google+-google.com&ie=utf... I suspect you could hack together a quick greasemonkey script to automatically inject your negative site list when the URL is generated
- miah_ 16y ago
  Because Chrome still doesn't sync your "search engine" settings. So maintaining a massive customized search engine across the multiple computers I use would be a pain. If this was a native feature it would work so long as I logged in to Google. Of course, if they fix chrome I'll be happy too.
- Devilboy 16y ago
  This only works for a small number of blacklisted domains.
mythobit 16y ago
I created a site that uses Google CSE to do just this. The link is: http://blacklist-search.appspot.com/ http://blacklist-search.appspot.com/
PaulJDrago 16y ago
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33156 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33156 never mind I just went out and found a script for it...

gregable 16y ago

Bonus trick. Experts Exchange actually often has some good stuff on it. The pages are designed to make you think you have to buy a subscription to see the answers, but if you simply scroll down beyond the ads for their service the answers (which aren't scraped from elsewhere) are visible near the bottom of the page. Yes annoying, I wish they didn't work this way, but there are times that I've found experts exchange to be the most useful result.

lukeinth 16y ago
That may be the case sometimes, but as far as I'm concerned they are spam. I would like the option to blacklist sites from my results. Wouldn't it be great if we had choice.
X-Istence 16y ago
This only seems to be the case when coming from Google, if you refresh the page or paste the link to a co-worker the results are gone. As for the long list of crap between the question and the answer, use AdBlock to remove that various DIV's.
Nick_C 16y ago
> which aren't scraped from elsewhere They used to be scraped from usenet. They may well still be, but I don't have any current evidence. Are they still doing that?