So HN, what sites are we all blocking?
experts-exchange.com
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
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Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#121. Does this remove results from each page, or from the resultset? In other words, if 7 of the first-page results are blocked, will I see only 3 results on that page?
2. Any plans for a Firefox extension? I'm willing to install Chrome just for running Google searches, but would rather add it to my main browser.
e: After a month or so, I would absolutely love to see the top 10 or so blocked domains. It's OK if you can't do this, but it would be interesting/amusing.
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#13"If installed, the extension also sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results."
If that happens, what's to stop this being used by companies to influence the results to get rid of competitors?
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#14So HN, what sites are we all blocking?
efreedom, experts exchange, ehow.
Would be interesting to have collective access to what people are blocking.
I like the approach...being able to click and exclude based on the search results that pop up.
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#15When I first read the headline, I assumed it meant blocking all of Google's sites from the SERPs (Youtube, blogger, etc). Perhaps this would be a nice way to rule out any potential nepotism.
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#16"If installed, the extension also sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results." If that happens, what's to stop this being used by companies to influence the results to get rid of competitors?
I imagine that's where the "we will study" bit comes in.
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#17So HN, what sites are we all blocking?
ehow, experts-exchange, questionhub/efreedom/etc
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#18Why make this a Chrome extension rather than a google labs type feature?
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#19"If installed, the extension also sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results." If that happens, what's to stop this being used by companies to influence the results to get rid of competitors?
Did you even read the snippet that you quoted? They will "study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results."
They are well aware of the ways in which such a signal could be gamed. That's why they will "study" and "explore" ways to use the new data as a "potential" signal.
Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
#201. http://bit.ly/gTADhE
2. Click Install, close page
3. Open each of the links below in a new tab, click block on the first result
4. Win.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Mahalo
http://www.google.com/search?q=ehow
http://www.google.com/search?q=experts-exchange
http://www.google.com/search?q=livestrong.com
http://www.google.com/search?q=answerbag
http://www.google.com/search?q=bills.com
http://www.google.com/search?q=chacha.com
http://www.google.com/search?q=associated+content
http://www.google.com/search?q=efreedom
http://www.google.com/search?q=questionhub
http://www.google.com/search?q=squidoo.com
http://www.google.com/search?q=about.com
http://www.google.com/search?q=yellowpages.com
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Edits: fixed formatting, added suggestions
This method is fine. The actual data sent to Google when you block a domain does not contain the search query (or the referrer).
This is what gets sent when you block a domain:
http://www.google.com/gen_204?atyp=i&oi=site_blocker&ct=addToBlocklist&ei=[CSRF-cookie]&cad=mattcutts.com
http://www.google.com/gen_204?atyp=i&oi=site_blocker&ct=deleteFromBlocklist&ei=undefined&cad=mattcutts.com