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They aren't yet using the data for ranking.
They are or probably would be doing that. See this comment by Matt Cutts: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218531
This little bit of successful nerd prognostication cheers me up more than perhaps it should, but oh well.
I just wanted to say thanks to all the people on Hacker News who asked for this option. We'll look at offering a "block site" option directly in the search results over time, but it takes longer to write, test, and launch that code. In the mean time, use this extension to clean up your own search results and tell us which sites you don't want to see in Google.
Assuming it's a normal extension and has to abide by the same rules that Non-Google Authored extensions do, the extension manifest indicates the extension doesn't have access to do any cross domain posts so all the filtering is done client side. Digging a little deeper, it looks like the blocked sites are stored in Chrome's LocalStorage, which if memory serves me correctly is somehow isolated per extension. It should…
1. 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=…
Secondly, the first link that appears for me when you search for experts-exchange is wikipedia.
Free karma points to whoever creates a corresponding Firefox extension...
1. 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
I generally find about.com has high-quality content giving an overview of a topic, much more in-depth than mahalo or eHow.
Why make this a Chrome extension rather than a google labs type feature?
The Chrome extension was faster to roll out and lets us iterate faster as well because it's outside of front-end pushes. We're looking at offering block links in the search results too, but that code takes longer to write, test, and launch.
would be cool if there was a subscription option where you can subscribe to some master list that gets updated by people you trust. or just simply a bulk insert