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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 rakkhi »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #49

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.

Matt do you think this will be abused at all? I.e. organized blocking of sites on mass to push it down rankings?

Is your block list something that will be synced so that it is available everywhere you use Chrome and eventually just synced with your Google account?

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

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Post by guelo »

ryanhuff wrote: post #146
Matt_Cutts wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right now, you'll see only three results. We'll look at refreshing, but in answer to #2, we're also looking at putting this more directly into Google's search results. I think having block options directly on Google's search results is the right long-term answer. But this extension lets people clean up their personal results while sending block data to Google that we might be able to use as a signal to improve overal…

After integrating this feature into Google search, a nice enhancement would be to allow sharing of people's personal exclusion list. Let the community help clean search!

That's the first step in establishing a community curated subscription service. That's how AdBlock works and it works great.

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

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Post by deltaqueue »

ErrantX wrote: post #97
Matt_Cutts wrote: post #49

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.

So, does this mean expertsexchange will eventually get shoved down the search results? (AKA great stuff!)

Experts exchange answers aren't nearly as bad as things like yahoo answers, etc. (PS - you know the answers are available at the very bottom of the page, right? I thought this was common knowledge, but just wanted to make sure the content was the reason behind the animosity and not that the information used to be inaccessible....)

Perfect example of this extension in action: search for "how to remove ear pads from HD555", and I get a link to this page as the third result: http://www.fixya.com/support/p516634-sennheiser_hd_555_consu...

Totally useless!

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

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Post by lambda »

SwellJoe wrote: post #148
simpleenigma wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I installed the extension and blocked experts exchange first thing ... not sure if I'll even use it for any other sites ...

ehow.com, ezinearticles.com. I'm sure there are many others, but those piss me off daily.

Yeah, those and WiseGeek for me. I keep on getting WiseGeek in searches (especially if I search for a question, which I occasionally do) and the content is complete and utter crap.

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

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Post by elsewhen »

dsl wrote: post #20

1. 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=…

If these sites are as bad as you claim, hacker news users will easily be able to spot them and nuke them from their results... I have a sneaking suspicion that those of you passing around lists of sites have ulterior motives.

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

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Post by patio11 »

Natsu wrote: post #96
TREYisRAD wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to write for eHow and the like, and I fully endorse blocking them. Thanks for the list!

On the subject of eHow, here's another reason to consider blocking them, Google for "no text to spin" (include quotes). That's an error message from bots that are spamming random wikis. I wrote more about it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215993

To be fair, there isn't a scintilla of evidence that they're involved with that. Some black hat is just using them as feedstock for content spinning. Happens to Wiki and my blog all the time.

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

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Post by benologist »

elsewhen wrote: post #166
dsl wrote: post #20

1. 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=…

If these sites are as bad as you claim, hacker news users will easily be able to spot them and nuke them from their results... I have a sneaking suspicion that those of you passing around lists of sites have ulterior motives.

My ulterior motive is I'm sick of seeing crap sites like bigresource.com and bytes.com. All they are is scraped/stolen content wrapped around AdSense, and I don't even know how many times I've clicked on them without thinking.

bigresource is the most annoying, one time those assholes put a fricking CAPTCHA in place so you had to prove you were human to get to the source link they STOLE the content from.

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