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Unfortunately any such scheme nowadays would be a lucrative target (to say the least) for bots and mechanical Turks. It would basically just become another SEO

by l0b0 6y ago

Unfortunately any such scheme nowadays would be a lucrative target (to say the least) for bots and mechanical Turks. It would basically just become another SEO metric. Instead you can exclude a specific site using "-site:example.com". This works on at least DDG and Google. Now, if only search engines would let me save those exclusions as preferences (even in a cookie, in case of privacy-focused search engines like DDG) I could blacklist a whole bunch of high-SEO crap sites. That would be a game changer: one black pattern and you're out of my search results.

captn3m0 6y ago
I might be too sleepy, but I think there was a time where Google supported blacklisting a site on logged in queries?
- marakv2 6y ago
  There was! I found out about the feature about a month before it was removed...
  - xtracto 6y ago
    Google search has had a lot of interesting features like the time when it showed tweets directly in the search results.
rainingcatndogs 6y ago
You can try this plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ddg-hide-unwanted-results/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ddg-hide-unwa...
- spurgu 6y ago
  Thanks! Someone in another thread recommended this userscript, which adds a small "Block" button next to search results in many search engines: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-domain-search-filter-block-sites https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...
  - crtasm 6y ago
    Another approach for Firefox (not sure about other browsers): Right click on the search box on a website and 'Add a keyword for this search', save it then edit the bookmark to end up with something like https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=-site:example.com https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=-site:example.com %s
Aachen 6y ago
I assumed GP meant for your own results only, not indeed have to power to influence everyone else's results. Edit: checked again, indeed that was the idea: > these preferences/filters for me,
edjrage 6y ago
> any such scheme nowadays would be a lucrative target (to say the least) for bots and mechanical Turks But that's assuming the service would use your upvotes to change results for other users, right? Would there be any harm in limiting this personalization to the user that made it? Now what I think would be really cool would be the ability to share your “recipes” with others, in a completely transparent way, kinda like uBlock filter lists. Google's custom search is almost that, but still too black-and-white (and, of course, still comes with all the caveats of being Google). Outright blocking entire sites or terms is too much. I want a search engine where I can calibrate results in a much more granular way. For instance, if I'm searching for something programming-related (which I could explicitly tell the engine vs. letting it infer for me), I'd like it to do things like not ignore special characters, and official reference documentation to appear first, then maybe Stack Overflow, etc. and leave content farms at the bottom, grouped in a compact space (but not necessarily make them disappear as some of them may actually be useful). Stuff like that.

by l0b0 6y ago

captn3m0 6y ago

I might be too sleepy, but I think there was a time where Google supported blacklisting a site on logged in queries?

marakv2 6y ago
There was! I found out about the feature about a month before it was removed...
- xtracto 6y ago
  Google search has had a lot of interesting features like the time when it showed tweets directly in the search results.

rainingcatndogs 6y ago

You can try this plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ddg-hide-unwanted-results/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ddg-hide-unwa...

spurgu 6y ago
Thanks! Someone in another thread recommended this userscript, which adds a small "Block" button next to search results in many search engines: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-domain-search-filter-block-sites https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...
- crtasm 6y ago
  Another approach for Firefox (not sure about other browsers): Right click on the search box on a website and 'Add a keyword for this search', save it then edit the bookmark to end up with something like https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=-site:example.com https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=-site:example.com %s

Aachen 6y ago

I assumed GP meant for your own results only, not indeed have to power to influence everyone else's results. Edit: checked again, indeed that was the idea: > these preferences/filters for me,

edjrage 6y ago

> any such scheme nowadays would be a lucrative target (to say the least) for bots and mechanical Turks But that's assuming the service would use your upvotes to change results for other users, right? Would there be any harm in limiting this personalization to the user that made it? Now what I think would be really cool would be the ability to share your “recipes” with others, in a completely transparent way, kinda like uBlock filter lists. Google's custom search is almost that, but still too black-and-white (and, of course, still comes with all the caveats of being Google). Outright blocking entire sites or terms is too much. I want a search engine where I can calibrate results in a much more granular way. For instance, if I'm searching for something programming-related (which I could explicitly tell the engine vs. letting it infer for me), I'd like it to do things like not ignore special characters, and official reference documentation to appear first, then maybe Stack Overflow, etc. and leave content farms at the bottom, grouped in a compact space (but not necessarily make them disappear as some of them may actually be useful). Stuff like that.