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I just wanted to say thanks to all the people on Hacker News who asked for this option. We'll look at offering a "block site" option directly in the search results over time, but it takes longer to write, test, and launch that code. In the mean time, use this extension to clean up your own search results and tell us which sites you don't want to see in Google.
Will you be offering a Firefox extension?
So HN, what sites are we all blocking?
Any chance we can get the blocklist transfered via sync in the next iteration of this plugin?
I second that suggestion. It would make the extension that much more awesome to not have to block sites on each device. Might also help to lower the noise on Google's end, so they're not seeing multiple blocks on the same domain from the same users, though I'm sure they account for this already.
Why do I need to use Chrome and then an extension if this is being offered by Google? Make this a google labs feature directly for Google itself in the personalization options. (also please make it available via a URL option, not just cookies or javascript)
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Matt, I don’t understand why Google need to offer blocking as a user option. Any web netizen with some experience can tell at a glance the spammy and low-quality results on a SERP, but Google, with their vast knowledge and experience and their ability to monitor all sorts and aspects of user clicking behaviour, cannot?
I alluded to that in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218627 . People feel comfortable with Google removing blatant spam: hidden text, cloaking, sneaky JavaScript redirects, etc. People tend to feel less comfortable if they feel like Google is making an editorial decision. If we get a good signal from this extension, or from offering block links in Google's search results, then it's much more similar Gmail's spam…
However, if it is built in to the general results, could you also add a metric to Webmaster Tools showing the frequency with which your domain is reported. It would also be good if the blocking could have timeout period so that sites can be given a chance to improve their behavior, rather than just deleting that domain forever.
Having a big company behaving like a local one-- listening to the customer's opinions is really nice. However, this is a feature that Google actually had. Why did you remove it? I accept the Search Wiki was not particuarly a success[1], but the remove option was very nice. Alas, thanks for listening. I'll be waiting for the server-side option. 1: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-searc...
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What's wrong with about.com? I generally find about.com has high-quality content giving an overview of a topic, much more in-depth than mahalo or eHow.
I can see where he's coming from: it has information on a lot of different topics and it's full of ads, therefore it's an evil content farm. Just like how someone that weighs the same as a duck must be made of wood, and therefore is a witch.
I just wanted to say thanks to all the people on Hacker News who asked for this option. We'll look at offering a "block site" option directly in the search results over time, but it takes longer to write, test, and launch that code. In the mean time, use this extension to clean up your own search results and tell us which sites you don't want to see in Google.
What role did Hacker News play in bringing about this feature?