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Allow users to blacklist sites. Share blacklisted sites. Have the option of instead of hiding blacklisted sites entirely - show them in a different column. Hav
by nonameking2026 4y ago
Allow users to blacklist sites.
Share blacklisted sites.
Have the option of instead of hiding blacklisted sites entirely - show them in a different column.
Have 4 different types of list.
Whitelist - highest scoring
Not listed - these websites are not ranked.
Yellowlist - show but keep in a separate column
Blacklist - don't show
https://search.brave.com/help/goggles https://search.brave.com/help/goggles is interesting.
- allendoerfer 4y agoI found the thought of adding a "yellowlist" funny, as some people are starting to find the use of "whitelist" and "blacklist" racist.
- fauigerzigerk 4y agoIt would be more consistent to call it greenlist, yellowlist, redlist then.
- Parzival99 4y agolmao, feeling left out with no brown list then.
- pizzathyme 4y agoThe proper terms now are allowlist and blocklist
- rvz 4y agoDon’t forget to avoid saying ‘blacksmith’ too. Another somewhat ‘racist’ one. /s Still waiting for Mastercard to change their incredibly ‘racist’ company name. /s
- swayvil 4y agoSome people couldn't find their butt with both hands and a map. Best not to take advice from them. Unless you find yourself surrounded. In which case smile and nod.
- slazaro 4y ago99%+ of people wouldn't use this, they would just try the search engine, see that the results suck, then stop using it. It could be useful for power users, though.
- fauigerzigerk 4y agoIt could work like spam filtering. Once a certain number of users have marked a site as spammy (or put it on their blacklist), it gets downranked for everyone. But jstummbillig is right. It could easily get gamed.
- lrvick 4y ago99%+ of people in the medical industry did not sanitize hands or equipment 100 years ago. 99%+ of people in the tech industry currently do not care to do the extra steps required for data neutrality, and privacy. 99%+ of people are lazy to the point of harming themselves and others. 1%- of people examine how the 99%+ do things and pioneer harm reduction tactics in spite of everyone constantly reminding them that no one wants their help.
- viach 4y ago99% of analogies are correct
- permo-w 4y ago>99%+ of people in the medical industry did not sanitize hands or equipment 100 years ago. this isn't true. 170 years ago, maybe. handwashing became a thing in the late 1800s after Semmelweiss and Pasteur
- lrvick 4y agoI will adjust this analogy by 70 years in the future, just for you.
- christophilus 4y agoAdd a thumbs up / down icon, and your average Facebook user would likely use it without knowing what it was.
- jstummbillig 4y agoHow do you prevent the gaming of blacklisting?
- hnarn 4y agoThat’s the same question as “how do you ensure complete trust” which is, of course, not possible. That doesn’t mean that “distributed trust-based blacklisting” still isn’t better than what Google is offering today, which is nothing.
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- Kinrany 4y agoSource lists from friends-of-friends.
- mhoad 4y agoI love how this is a problem that a huge number of people have worked on for around 20 years and have thrown stupid amounts of money at and people just jump in and boldly proclaim that they have the answers that just popped into their mind. Peak HackerNews.
- christophilus 4y agoI don’t think these ideas just popped into his mind. They’ve been discussed for a long time on HN, and some alternative search engines have started to incorporate them. It’s worth the experiment.
- _abox 4y agoBut a company like Google would want supreme control. They're not inclined to rely on a community for anything Wikipedia shows it can work at scale.
- mhoad 4y agoGoogle have actually followed a similar model for like ten years now with like 10,000 temp workers following this 172 manual to essentially as the basis to train a lot of their ranking models. [1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterhub.com/en//searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterh...
- grogers 4y agoGmail's spam filter is basically community trained by people clicking spam/not spam (at least, that was what they said many years ago, it might have silently changed). What's different about search?
- permo-w 4y agospam filter isn't their key flagship aquila product
- nonameking2026 4y ago
- alxjsn 4y agoI recently made a tool to create Brave Goggles using subreddits as a signal source. I already use a netsec goggle for daily searching. https://github.com/forcesunseen/narwhalizer https://github.com/forcesunseen/narwhalizer