Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?

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Post by timcederman » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 9:40 PM UTC

ErrantX wrote: post #17

skolor wrote: post #6

Its funny you mention experts-exchange. Whenever I see that as a search result, its usually a relief. I have yet to see an experts-exchange page that did not have the information I was looking for on it, even though they do make it rather difficult to find (You have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see the actual answer). Compared to the huge number of real spam sites that usually come up when search for techno…

The thing with experts exchange is you have to pay to see the answers, right? (unless I have missed something). Because they are all over google for most error related searches it is frustrating to click without looking and find a useless page (taunting you almost :P). It hides all the free useful pages with the same answers on :( I wouldnt remove it from Google though - and I agree, it is better than all the spam li…

You only need to sign in if you are NOT referred by Google.

Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?

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Post by timcederman » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 9:41 PM UTC

FreeRadical wrote: post #4

mahalo

and WikiAnswers (aka a huge number of seed questions and no answers).

Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?

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Post by jusob » Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 10:17 PM UTC

All my competitors :-)

Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?

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Post by projektdotnet » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 12:29 AM UTC

timmaah wrote: post #23

compay wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I scroll all the way down and don't see anything. Do you need to be logged in? Even if you only have to be logged in without paying, it's still annoying as heck.

It only works for certain referring pages. Google being one of them. Direct access, or a HN referral will not show the answers.

I never knew that, had to sign up for HN just so I could thank you for that info, now google search when EE shows up I don't have to skip those.

Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?

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Post by scumola » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 4:06 AM UTC

I have my own 'custom' search engine that filters out those annoying sites. You can use it here: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015394218516616598090:kmqd...

Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?

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Post by petercooper » Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 2:16 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #13

petercooper wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the stores that have been spidered (amazon.com etc) Googles own sites (youtube.com, images.google.com, etc) I'm glad this is a hypothetical question because I find both of the above very useful. I often suffix "amazon" or "youtube" on to a search - saves me actually having to go to those sites to perform a search in most cases.

site:amazon.com that works just fine and it would keep the rest of the search results clean.

Doesn't quite roll off the fingers as well as amazon or wikipedia though. Anyway, those entries are as valuable as anything else. If I'm searching for the title of a book, why shouldn't stores that sell the book come up?

It sounds like some people in this thread would prefer non-profit communist Google, rather than a proper search engine.

Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?

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Post by hdx » Wed, Jul 15, 2009, 10:47 PM UTC

I wish I had known the experts-exchange "hack" before...

Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?

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Post by kingsley_20 » Wed, Jul 15, 2009, 10:59 PM UTC

jusob wrote: post #33

All my competitors :-)

I would not do that :-)

Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?

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Post by udfalkso » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 6:50 AM UTC

I actually wrote myself a greasemonkey script to hide results from w3schools once upon a time. I'll try to dig it up.

Their docs are almost always missing the one piece of information I actually want (usually a function definition) and they nearly always rank very highly for such queries.