Someone please add support for DuckDuckGo!
Wait, it already works there.
Amazing!
uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
i suspect google does not support user configurable spam filtering because spam filtering is one of their big value adds. their job is to return relevant and spam free results in a user friendly manner. if they made client side filtering a thing, and it allowed their spam filtering efforts to shrink because "the users can always filter it themselves" then their overall product would suffer. i imagine also it's a matt…
Doubt it, it's more likely that they want to maintain full control over results. They likely have certain results they don't want you to filter. Also, relevance can change over time. You might filter out something now that made sense to filter out now but not in the future after the site changed and got reindexed.
right, their value proposition to you, as a user of their search engine, is that if you type in a few terms they'll present a carefully curated list of locations on the internet that are not only relevant to your search terms but also are useful to you, specifically, at that moment.
supporting user controlled blocklists would implicitly acknowledge that their system can miss the mark. i suspect they focus on not missing the mark rather than providing supplies for their users to paper over problems with their system.
i'd be really surprised if there are "certain results they don't want you to filter." separation of editorial and business in publishing has been around for a very long time and it would be pretty hard for them to defend if it came out that they were using their own ad revenue as an input to how they rank and filter results.
edit: i would also suggest that if they were boosting results that drove ad revenue for them, they'd have been caught by now. there are a lot of people out there who make a living experimenting with how to boost a google ranking. if it was as simple as "use google as an advertising partner on your site" i'm sure we'd be hearing about it.
Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#43There's a specific extension doing this for w3schools. Congratulations are in order, I guess...? For being so horrible for so long to have an extension created long ago to nuke you, that is. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-w3schools/g...
Could someone explain why they're hated? I don't know much about E3, but used them a few times without issue
https://www.w3fools.com/ explains most of it but as explained it apparently mostly resolved the past issues
Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#44There's a specific extension doing this for w3schools. Congratulations are in order, I guess...? For being so horrible for so long to have an extension created long ago to nuke you, that is. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-w3schools/g...
Could someone explain why they're hated? I don't know much about E3, but used them a few times without issue
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Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#45Someone please add support for DuckDuckGo!
it has it, says so right on the page
Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#46There's a specific extension doing this for w3schools. Congratulations are in order, I guess...? For being so horrible for so long to have an extension created long ago to nuke you, that is. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-w3schools/g...
Could someone explain why they're hated? I don't know much about E3, but used them a few times without issue
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Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#47For a quick and dirty DIY solution, add something like this to your uBlock filter list: google.*##.g:has(a[href*="thetopsites.com"]) duckduckgo.*##.results > div:has(a[href*="thetopsites.com"]) The linked project goes way beyond this though, very neat!
Thanks for the tip.
That works well enough for me, and it saves having another browser extension to configure!
Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#48There's a specific extension doing this for w3schools. Congratulations are in order, I guess...? For being so horrible for so long to have an extension created long ago to nuke you, that is. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-w3schools/g...
w3schools is unusable without ublock, makes the browser/computer crawl
Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#49This is such a great idea, and a mystery as to why no search engine has dared to put it on their engine. Care to enlighten me?
Every time I end up on the pinterest from google, I hit back. Google knows that, but it will still show me pinterest as the top result.
Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#50This is such a great idea, and a mystery as to why no search engine has dared to put it on their engine. Care to enlighten me?
It used to be built into Google. I was just telling someone that Google has been down hill since they removed it, and they were so young they didn't remember it being there.