Blocked Sites is discontinued

Post by SoftwareMaven » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 8:20 PM UTC

Shank wrote: post #3

bittermang wrote: post #2

Not surprising, as the feature hasn't worked for quite some time, despite still being available to configure within your settings. I am disappointed however, because there are quite a few sites on the Internet that I would much rather not see at all, ever again. They are the noise in my search for signal in my Google search results. And the entire point of switching to Google way back in the day was the quality of th…

Personal Blacklist is an official Google extension, it just doesn't sync with anything or save to a database. At least for my purposes, I don't need it anywhere but my desktop machine to help out in result pruning (experts exchange, fixya). Their offered download link doesn't even work for me, it just notifies me of its shutdown.

Post by zorlem » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 8:21 PM UTC

Shank wrote: post #3

bittermang wrote: post #2

Not surprising, as the feature hasn't worked for quite some time, despite still being available to configure within your settings. I am disappointed however, because there are quite a few sites on the Internet that I would much rather not see at all, ever again. They are the noise in my search for signal in my Google search results. And the entire point of switching to Google way back in the day was the quality of th…

Personal Blacklist is an official Google extension, it just doesn't sync with anything or save to a database. At least for my purposes, I don't need it anywhere but my desktop machine to help out in result pruning (experts exchange, fixya). Their offered download link doesn't even work for me, it just notifies me of its shutdown.

Post by alwaysdoit » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 8:29 PM UTC

IvyMike wrote: post #32

brokentone wrote: post #4

This really sucks for me because it means I'll have to see experts-exchange results again. Why is Google shutting every secondary project/feature down right now? Reader, labs, blocked sites, code search... Any engineers able to weigh in on how this is affecting innovation or the 80/20 policy?

Oh god, I've completely forgotten about expertsexchange! The horror, the horror. This product shutdown is a little surprising, because it makes Google's core product worse and less useful. Maybe they're confident their current ranking algorithms get rid of all the crap content farm sites now, and as someone else mentioned, this appears to be the case. But I suspect they'll enjoy a resurgence someday. Ugh.

Post by eknkc » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 8:32 PM UTC

malandrew wrote: post #15

brokentone wrote: post #4

This really sucks for me because it means I'll have to see experts-exchange results again. Why is Google shutting every secondary project/feature down right now? Reader, labs, blocked sites, code search... Any engineers able to weigh in on how this is affecting innovation or the 80/20 policy?

I just want to see w3schools stop showing up at the top of results before MDN, which is a much higher quality resource.

Post by Spone » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 8:35 PM UTC

Encosia wrote: post #12

> To block particular sites from your search results, we recommend the Personal Blocklist Chrome extension from Google. Because, you know, everyone using Google also uses Chrome and only uses it on one device.