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My Google experience would be improved immeasurably if there was a way for me to block domains after I decide I never want to see them in my search results agai

by yrro 4y ago

My Google experience would be improved immeasurably if there was a way for me to block domains after I decide I never want to see them in my search results again.

blackshaw 4y ago
Google used to have this feature. Why did they remove it?
- dazc 4y ago
  Because it was gamed.
  - planb 4y ago
    Then they should have simply ignored the signal, not canned the feature
ComodoHacker 4y ago
You mean allow people to block Google properties in search? No way I guess.
stevewatson301 4y ago
https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
- yrro 4y ago
  That looks great, thanks. Installing it now! I've been burned in the past by relying on extensions like these, which only work until Google change their HTML and then the extension author is (understandably) burned out and doesn't update the extension, and eventually I just give up and uninstall it... I'd be a lot happier if this was a core Google Search feature. But I understand that Google don't make money by blocking their (paying) customers (spammers who run ads) from their search results.
ctrlmeta 4y ago
Searching for Python API docs and getting w3schools and geeksforgeeks results is frustrating. Is there a solution to this problem? Maybe even a browser extension?
- yrro 4y ago
  That one's easy if you use duckduckgo. !py urlunsplit redirects you to: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=urlunsplit https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=urlunsplit
- sitkack 4y ago
  If you are searching for docs, then https://devdocs.io/ https://devdocs.io/ might be better than a regular search engine.
null_object 4y ago
Another poster has already suggested `uBlacklist` so I won't waste bandwidth by repeating the link, but I want to underline the utility of this extension, because it's transformed my experience of using Google search for code problems. Before using this, I was finding the first page of my search results were overwhelmed with StackOverflow-scrapers, which returned SO answers reformatted into some sort of garbage and unreadable 'blog-post'. Nowadays, after blocking twenty/thirty/fifty(?) of these sites, I get to where I want as fast as I did 10 years ago.
- nextaccountic 4y ago
  Could you share the url list?
  - hurflmurfl 4y ago
    There's a public ruleset for this: https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-stackoverflow-translation https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-stackoverflow-translatio...
    - nextaccountic 4y ago
      Nice! If anyone want to share other such lists, however subjective, I would be grateful edit: found another one, https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-github-translation https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-github-translation
  - NoMAD76 4y ago
    Also you can use this for uBlock https://letsblock.it https://letsblock.it
    - nextaccountic 4y ago
      What's the difference from letblockit to ublacklist? Is letblockit affiliated to ublock origin in some way?
bluecalm 4y ago
Letting you blacklist a site is one thing. They could improve upon it by letting people downvote/upvote pages and then using their extensive information vault to decide who is somewhat reputable or just similar to you. I mean, I am 40 years old programmer/entrepreneur interested in sports and traditional board and card games. I like nice restaurants and hotels and even sometimes write Google reviews on them. I have my Gmail account since the beginning and I am paying YouTube and Google services customer. I am using Google phones since the Nexus. Google knows who I am, what I like, where I visit. It's pretty good at estimating revenue of my company. What about using the info for something useful for once and just show me pages people like me liked and don't show me pages people like me think are spam/scam? Please?
- Mordisquitos 4y ago
  That may sound promising on paper, but I give it at most 6 months before an up/downvote manipulation SEO industry emerges and starts destroying any burgeoning improvements in the quality of search results.
  - headsoup 4y ago
    Not to mention anything even slightly political or divisive in nature will quickly become chaos.
ape4 4y ago
Of course, not the same but the Google News thing on Android lets you say you're not interested in this suggestion or don't show me this news source again.

by yrro 4y ago

My Google experience would be improved immeasurably if there was a way for me to block domains after I decide I never want to see them in my search results again.

blackshaw 4y ago

Google used to have this feature. Why did they remove it?

dazc 4y ago
Because it was gamed.
- planb 4y ago
  Then they should have simply ignored the signal, not canned the feature

ComodoHacker 4y ago

You mean allow people to block Google properties in search? No way I guess.

stevewatson301 4y ago

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

yrro 4y ago
That looks great, thanks. Installing it now! I've been burned in the past by relying on extensions like these, which only work until Google change their HTML and then the extension author is (understandably) burned out and doesn't update the extension, and eventually I just give up and uninstall it... I'd be a lot happier if this was a core Google Search feature. But I understand that Google don't make money by blocking their (paying) customers (spammers who run ads) from their search results.

ctrlmeta 4y ago

Searching for Python API docs and getting w3schools and geeksforgeeks results is frustrating. Is there a solution to this problem? Maybe even a browser extension?

yrro 4y ago
That one's easy if you use duckduckgo. !py urlunsplit redirects you to: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=urlunsplit https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=urlunsplit
sitkack 4y ago
If you are searching for docs, then https://devdocs.io/ https://devdocs.io/ might be better than a regular search engine.

null_object 4y ago

Another poster has already suggested `uBlacklist` so I won't waste bandwidth by repeating the link, but I want to underline the utility of this extension, because it's transformed my experience of using Google search for code problems. Before using this, I was finding the first page of my search results were overwhelmed with StackOverflow-scrapers, which returned SO answers reformatted into some sort of garbage and unreadable 'blog-post'. Nowadays, after blocking twenty/thirty/fifty(?) of these sites, I get to where I want as fast as I did 10 years ago.

nextaccountic 4y ago
Could you share the url list?
- hurflmurfl 4y ago
  There's a public ruleset for this: https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-stackoverflow-translation https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-stackoverflow-translatio...
  - nextaccountic 4y ago
    Nice! If anyone want to share other such lists, however subjective, I would be grateful edit: found another one, https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-github-translation https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-github-translation
- NoMAD76 4y ago
  Also you can use this for uBlock https://letsblock.it https://letsblock.it
  - nextaccountic 4y ago
    What's the difference from letblockit to ublacklist? Is letblockit affiliated to ublock origin in some way?

bluecalm 4y ago

Letting you blacklist a site is one thing. They could improve upon it by letting people downvote/upvote pages and then using their extensive information vault to decide who is somewhat reputable or just similar to you. I mean, I am 40 years old programmer/entrepreneur interested in sports and traditional board and card games. I like nice restaurants and hotels and even sometimes write Google reviews on them. I have my Gmail account since the beginning and I am paying YouTube and Google services customer. I am using Google phones since the Nexus. Google knows who I am, what I like, where I visit. It's pretty good at estimating revenue of my company. What about using the info for something useful for once and just show me pages people like me liked and don't show me pages people like me think are spam/scam? Please?

Mordisquitos 4y ago
That may sound promising on paper, but I give it at most 6 months before an up/downvote manipulation SEO industry emerges and starts destroying any burgeoning improvements in the quality of search results.
- headsoup 4y ago
  Not to mention anything even slightly political or divisive in nature will quickly become chaos.

ape4 4y ago

Of course, not the same but the Google News thing on Android lets you say you're not interested in this suggestion or don't show me this news source again.