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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

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Post by shadowpwner »

toni wrote: post #61
jellicle wrote: post #28

Free karma points to whoever creates a corresponding Firefox extension...

There is a Greasemonkey script[1] which does blacklisting. It works by sending "-site:example.com" with every search query. The script does a lot more cleanups like removing link tracking and ads, so if you don't feel like using all the functions, look in the code and check out "RemoveBadLinks()" function. Maybe you want to comment all other public functions in init(). [1] http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/79742

Wouldn't that reach a limit pretty soon? I've commented on this before, but there's a max character length for the search box.

Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results

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Post by Upset »

I think this tool will be "Very Misused" by a lot of people just to SQUASH their closest competitors. I can see some companies hiring "paid blockers" to squash competition websites and even in the Search Engine world you watch Microsoft and Google block and report each others sites in an even continuing search engine war what a sad day for free speech George Orwell 1984 :(

Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results

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Post by Upset »

Upset wrote: post #133

I think this tool will be "Very Misused" by a lot of people just to SQUASH their closest competitors. I can see some companies hiring "paid blockers" to squash competition websites and even in the Search Engine world you watch Microsoft and Google block and report each others sites in an even continuing search engine war what a sad day for free speech George Orwell 1984 :(

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. George Orwell

Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results

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Post by pamelafox »

klbarry wrote: post #67
jonknee wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first round includes eHow, Mahalo, Associated Content, Experts Exchange, Squidoo and Examiner. Update: I added answers.yahoo.com as well, which has consistently terrible content and yet is often highly ranked.

I really often get exactly the answer I need from Yahoo Answers, just to throw that in there...

I've found that there are some more taboo (but valid) questions that are only ever answered on Yahoo! Answers, presumably because people aren't worried about their identity there.

For an extreme example: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071113122412AA... (Warning: Taboo. And the answer probably isn't relevant to 95% of the posters here. :)

Re: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results

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Post by derefr »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #74
demetris wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You already have the SafeSearch filter that can be toggled on and off to show you different search results. Why not an Editorial filter as well (perhaps disabled by default)?
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