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?
It was a major feature of blekko's search engine.
Google had it for a while, too.
uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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#12I like the idea, but does it come with a default list? I'd be interested in something like this but that includes most known blogspam sites, with a global list like say pihole provides.
https://github.com/h-matsuo/uBlacklist-subscription-for-deve... takes out the StackOverflow clones
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#13This 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?
google used to have the personal blocklist extension not sure what happened to it...
Yes, Google used to have this feature. I was probably one of the tiny percentage of the users who used it. My guess is it's one of those features where very few people used it. So the cost of maintaining a feature like this on a scale like Google search with tiny percentage of users is not worth it.
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#14This 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?
It hurts Google to allow the product to choose what customers have access to it.
To add to this...
A lot of those super annoying ad-filled websites you get directed to from Google Search... Guess who's providing those ads and making money when you accidentally click an ad while trying to get off the website?
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#15I like the idea, but does it come with a default list? I'd be interested in something like this but that includes most known blogspam sites, with a global list like say pihole provides.
I just installed the firefox version and it doesn't.
I wish there was a predetermined list with things that are known to be poor results, like pinterest on google image search.
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#16This 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?
It hurts Google to allow the product to choose what customers have access to it.
Extend this to map search - If only I could exclude all starbucks, 7/11, even Denny's from my map searches for 'coffee shop'. No hate to those who like the coffee from there, but I want a proper coffee shop and if I could filter out certain chains, I would do it in a caffeinated heartbeat. This applies to not just Google maps though.
Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#17This 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?
It hurts Google to allow the product to choose what customers have access to it.
This is a great, pithy expression for exactly what is driving the toxic behavior--nicely phrased.
Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#18This 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).
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#19I like the idea, but does it come with a default list? I'd be interested in something like this but that includes most known blogspam sites, with a global list like say pihole provides.
Not really, an easy way to discover and use other people's blacklists (like ad blockers try to have) is the biggest thing missing from this extension.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It hurts Google to allow the product to choose what customers have access to it.
Extend this to map search - If only I could exclude all starbucks, 7/11, even Denny's from my map searches for 'coffee shop'. No hate to those who like the coffee from there, but I want a proper coffee shop and if I could filter out certain chains, I would do it in a caffeinated heartbeat. This applies to not just Google maps though.
At least you can -exclude those names. Gas station convenience stores come up for "grocery store" searches, yet they're all named differently.