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Re: Show HN: Google search blacklist

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Great idea - would just require some sort of moderation in that format though. I'd much rather manage my own list of domains to blacklist. A crowd sourced one I fear could be exploited and prevent me from seeing content I'd otherwise like to be able to find.

Yes, moderation is definitely necessary. For instance, easylist for adblock which has over 10000 filters is maintained by five people and is updated with input from the forum members.

any search blacklist needs to include experts exchange as a basic default (perhaps the basic list can be disabled as necessary).

its mindblowing google hasn't done this yet

Re: Show HN: Google search blacklist

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... and then what happens?

Two things: first, the data is used to improve our algorithms. Second, spam reports get 4x the weighting when we prioritize sites for manual spam investigation. That does mean that if you do a spam report on a page/site that only gets seen (say) once every six months, it might not get looked at on the manual side though, simply because there are other sites that are hurting users more. Giving spam reports 4x the weig…

glad you're reading this thread matt.. maybe its time to give us both private and crowdsourced blacklists?

experts exchange and ehow need to be gone by now and the data will be incredibly useful for your search quality

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