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Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?

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Re: Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?

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Wow, I'm surprised that I never remembered that feature existed. I wonder why they removed it, just like why they removed the insanely helpful "Cached" feature.

Cached likely went away for the same reason image search was made to suck, legal issues.

Cached still exists, press the 3 points next to the url.

Re: Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?

#72
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If I had to guess, it's a lot of data they don't want to store. Current solution is either ublacklist, or add filters to uBlock Origin. Both are linked in the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29546433 https://github.com/h-matsuo/uBlacklist-subscription-for-deve...

Data storage can't be the reason. No matter how you implement it, the storage required is peanuts compared to things like Youtube/Drive/Google Photos.

Re: Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?

#73

If search is free, then you are the product. Now if there was a paid search engine, and you were the customer, you would expect customer service, customization, no ads, privacy protection, etc.

No ads/no privacy/no customer service are fair game for a free service, but there's no reason why it should include no customization as well.

Re: Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?

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post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cached likely went away for the same reason image search was made to suck, legal issues.

Cached still exists, press the 3 points next to the url.

Still exists in some urls. It used to be virtually universal.

Re: Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?

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My go-to test search term is: "grass-fed beef restaurant in sf" You do much better than Google (Google will always include "Top 10 Best Grass Fed Organic Steak in San Francisco, CA" from Yelp and then link to places that don't have Grass-fed beef options.) However, currently, your first ranking option is Pinterest spam FYI: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=grass+fed+beef+restaurant+in... → https://www.mojeek.com/searc…

Thanks. useful feedback. As you point out #1 organic link on G is Yelp. They currently block all but G, Bing and Yahoo! - we'll get in touch with them again. https://www.yelp.com/robots.txt Organic link #3 on G is Belcampo; we have some of that indexed so we'll take a look: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=food+site%3Abelcampo.com

>we'll get in touch with them again.

Feel free not to. Follow the link, it isn't a quality result.

Re: Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?

#80

For the same reason that streaming services don't really give you the ability to filter by cast/crew or hide stuff you've already seen: to gently guide you into avenues that are more profitable for them, regardless of what you say you really want.

Prime Video has an option where I can hide specific movies and seasons of series.

I use this feature a lot, and it works.

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