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I wish Google would add that feature natively. Google could even use it to help detect spam sites.
by jetrink 5y ago
I wish Google would add that feature natively. Google could even use it to help detect spam sites.
- bserge 5y agoOh dear God, no. Don't need Google to have even more control. Imagine blocking something and it shows up anyway because Google decided so. Oh wait, you don't have to imagine, just use Gmail on Android. "Spam? That's not spam" - Google. Or just Android with it's fucking "notifications" from all the garbage news sites. Tbf, my fault for using Google apps. Honestly, blocking shit you don't want to see locally is the best solution. Decentralized, under your control, no need to trust BigCorp number 294.
- enobrev 5y agoGoogle used to make it possible to filter domains from results. I was sad to see it disappear
- leephillips 5y agoYou can still do "-site:spam.com".
- enobrev 5y agoFor sure! Thanks for the reminder. There was a point (as you may know) when the domains were saved into your profile, so you didn't have to add it.
- leephillips 5y agoI didn’t know.
- kdot 5y agoWhen they removed the domain blacklist feature search went down hill fast. https://searchengineland.com/google-brings-back-blocking-sites-in-search-results-67723 https://searchengineland.com/google-brings-back-blocking-sit...
- thesuitonym 5y agoThis works, but bad actors like pinterest have found a way around that by having a domain on every TLD and ccTLD out there.
- cuspycode 5y agoI found out by experiment that wildcards work, e.g. -site:pinterest.*
- donmcronald 5y agoThey used to have personal blocklist [1] and blocking garbage domains actually had an impact on search results. 1. https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-block-sites-from.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension...