Looks promising, but I'm unsure about the security angle. Google has just added a way for anyone to "DDos" competing websites into oblivion. I hope there are measures in place to prevent that.
They aren't yet using the data for ranking.
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
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Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#32>...explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results Democratic censorship.
What's the difference in Google censoring spam and users censoring spam?
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#331. http://bit.ly/gTADhE 2. Click Install, close page 3. Open each of the links below in a new tab, click block on the first result 4. Win. http://www.google.com/search?q=Mahalo http://www.google.com/search?q=ehow http://www.google.com/search?q=experts-exchange http://www.google.com/search?q=livestrong.com http://www.google.com/search?q=answerbag http://www.google.com/search?q=bills.com http://www.google.com/search?q=…
Don't forget about http://www.google.com/search?q=about.com
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#34When I first read the headline, I assumed it meant blocking all of Google's sites from the SERPs (Youtube, blogger, etc). Perhaps this would be a nice way to rule out any potential nepotism.
You can block google.com in the extension if you want (we didn't put in any code to prevent that), but your search results might behave in weird/unexpected ways if you do.
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right now, you'll see only three results. We'll look at refreshing, but in answer to #2, we're also looking at putting this more directly into Google's search results. I think having block options directly on Google's search results is the right long-term answer. But this extension lets people clean up their personal results while sending block data to Google that we might be able to use as a signal to improve overal…
> We'll look at refreshing, but in answer to #2, we're also looking at putting this more directly into Google's search results. Don't worry about refreshing -- I'd much rather see three good results than 7 bad ones. The idea of being able to block content farms entirely is literally making me giggle at my desk. Focus on that! Thank you, thank you, thank you x1000 for this.
I've been using it for a few weeks while we tested it, and it really does feel nice to block a site that you never want to see again. :)
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#361. http://bit.ly/gTADhE 2. Click Install, close page 3. Open each of the links below in a new tab, click block on the first result 4. Win. http://www.google.com/search?q=Mahalo http://www.google.com/search?q=ehow http://www.google.com/search?q=experts-exchange http://www.google.com/search?q=livestrong.com http://www.google.com/search?q=answerbag http://www.google.com/search?q=bills.com http://www.google.com/search?q=…
Doesn't this tell Google "Mahalo is a spam result if I search for 'Mahalo'"?
Seems like you should do this when you get one of these and you wanted Stackoverflow.
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#37Nice. My first target - every local restaurant result I get that appears before either (1) the official restaurant website or (2) Yelp. Local search results are always gunked up with yellowpages.com and local newspaper spam. Also, I find it highly suspicious that urbanspoon has consistently better placement than Yelp, despite having consistently weaker content.
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#38Why do I need to use Chrome and then an extension if this is being offered by Google?
Make this a google labs feature directly for Google itself in the personalization options.
(also please make it available via a URL option, not just cookies or javascript)
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#391. http://bit.ly/gTADhE 2. Click Install, close page 3. Open each of the links below in a new tab, click block on the first result 4. Win. http://www.google.com/search?q=Mahalo http://www.google.com/search?q=ehow http://www.google.com/search?q=experts-exchange http://www.google.com/search?q=livestrong.com http://www.google.com/search?q=answerbag http://www.google.com/search?q=bills.com http://www.google.com/search?q=…
Doesn't this tell Google "Mahalo is a spam result if I search for 'Mahalo'"? Seems like you should do this when you get one of these and you wanted Stackoverflow.
I don't think it records which search first resulted in the block, only that a block exists