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This 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?
I've been using this extension for a good while now, and it's probably saved me a stroke or two.
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My w3schools workaround is appending `mdn` to any search for something related to web standards
I have been part of the beta test for kagi search engine (kagi.com) and my favorite feature is you can prefer/mute websites. So for example I prefer MDN so the site is ranked higher if it shows in the search results. Note I’m unaffiliated with them but the product/team is great so rooting for them to succeed.
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Every time I accidentally click a Quora search result it makes me so unhappy. I must have missed the memo about Pinterest though. I always liked that site but haven't been on there in a while. I'm reading up on what's wrong and it sounds like a few years ago it started drowning in ads. Then this year they pushed an update that caused half their users to stop using the platform. Is that accurate?
What's wrong with Quora? Now I don't use Quora for any serious source of information, but it's just a site with lots of fun anecdotes. Reading these anecdotes isn't a bad way to pass the time; it's IMO much better than mindlessly watching videos on Instagram or TikTok (which I don't do at all).
>much better than mindlessly watching videos on Instagram or TikTok (which I don't do at all).
How can you definitively say that? If I said this thing I never tried is worst than what I do, wouldn't you at least suggest I try it? Good stuff you might really like exists too: https://www.tiktok.com/tag/programmerhumor?lang=en
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My feeling is that by blacklisting like 100 sites you get 99% of the SEO spam. In practice it should be a winning battle, since it takes time and money to spam site up in ranking and low effort to blacklist it. I will try this out.
So you're saying Google could clean up the index by simply banning 100 sites?
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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 miss…
There used to be the same kind of conspiracy theory around G analytics. Hey, guess what?
This 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?
Are you paying for Google search? No. So, its not in Google's interest to do what's best for the enduser (to an extent, after which it hurts them as user engagement dwindles and people move to another search engine).
For 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!
i tried pinterest and did not work for me google. ##.g:has(a[href ="pinterest.com"]) google. ##.g:has(a[href ="*.pinterest.com"]) dunno. i primarily use duck which apparently does not show that many pinterest results and even that one didn't work. i would have to investigate
google.##.g:has(a[href="pinterest.com"])
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Every time I accidentally click a Quora search result it makes me so unhappy. I must have missed the memo about Pinterest though. I always liked that site but haven't been on there in a while. I'm reading up on what's wrong and it sounds like a few years ago it started drowning in ads. Then this year they pushed an update that caused half their users to stop using the platform. Is that accurate?
What's wrong with Quora? Now I don't use Quora for any serious source of information, but it's just a site with lots of fun anecdotes. Reading these anecdotes isn't a bad way to pass the time; it's IMO much better than mindlessly watching videos on Instagram or TikTok (which I don't do at all).
As others have said, it can also be done with a uBlock filter. For example, here are my filters that block and remove terrible copycats/translations of StackOverflow https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee7... . I hate these copies that somehow manage to be better referenced than StackOverflow.