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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 comforteagle »

cellis wrote: post #62
brianwillis wrote: post #5

So HN, what sites are we all blocking?

markmail, osdir. these sites basically mirror yahoo/google groups. Big source of frustration.

as replied up the thread...

[I run osdir.com] Just to be clear we're not scraping content nor SEOing to death. We've been running our mailing list archive for almost 8 years.

To quote Matt_Cutts somewhere else in this thread: 'because USENET/mailing lists don't always have a centralized/canonical location on the web, which makes dupe content more of a potential issue. It's not the usual "Website X copied my website" scenario.'

If you dislike us that's cool, but just know we're not showing in your SERPs because of scraping & SEO trickery. A lot of people, maybe not you, really are finding their answer there. There's a lot of solid answers in inboxes.

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

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Post by raintrees »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #27
raintrees wrote: post #10

I was just griping about this to my wife yesterday. The noise is drowning out the signal in my recent searches...

Please install the extension and let us know what sites are annoying you. You're exactly the sort of person we want that feedback from. In the process, you'll keep them from showing up for you again.

Oops? Maybe I am not referring to the same problem - Rather than identifying "content farms" I am hoping to block sites that are returned that do not have the search terms on the page returned, and therefore should not be in the results, in my opinion.

Is this Google's intention for usage?

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

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Post by cellis »

comforteagle wrote: post #221
cellis wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

markmail, osdir. these sites basically mirror yahoo/google groups. Big source of frustration.

as replied up the thread... [I run osdir.com] Just to be clear we're not scraping content nor SEOing to death. We've been running our mailing list archive for almost 8 years. To quote Matt_Cutts somewhere else in this thread: 'because USENET/mailing lists don't always have a centralized/canonical location on the web, which makes dupe content more of a potential issue. It's not the usual "Website X copied my website"…

I see. I bear you no ill will. I just happened to one day start seeing LOTS of osdir and markmail results in my searches. And it's not even that I mind what osdir does (I did find answers there), but that it's UI is worse than the original site and I feel that the originals should be given higher weight.

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

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Post by comforteagle »

cellis wrote: post #223
comforteagle wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

as replied up the thread... [I run osdir.com] Just to be clear we're not scraping content nor SEOing to death. We've been running our mailing list archive for almost 8 years. To quote Matt_Cutts somewhere else in this thread: 'because USENET/mailing lists don't always have a centralized/canonical location on the web, which makes dupe content more of a potential issue. It's not the usual "Website X copied my website"…

I see. I bear you no ill will. I just happened to one day start seeing LOTS of osdir and markmail results in my searches. And it's not even that I mind what osdir does (I did find answers there), but that it's UI is worse than the original site and I feel that the originals should be given higher weight.

Hey cellis, thanks. What I see in cases where we come up higher in SERPs is that the crawler just hasn't found the best content in google groups yet, if ever. I scratch my head over that one too, but ours is not to reason why. I don't see the index pointing to the same content in the landing pages typically either with my queries.

UI: LOL, yeah, it's a toss up here whether to make it prettier or keep it a bit old school.

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

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Post by vog »

phunehehe wrote: post #193
vog wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Experts exchange answers aren't nearly as bad as things like yahoo answers While yahoo answers etc. might provide bad answers, experts exchange provides no answers at all. All you see is an open question with a nasty subscribe button that will only work if you haven't already used it more than 30 days ago. So experts exchange is more than useless: It's just plain advertisement without any added value. It's the kind…

Well EE is nasty and I hate it, but they have the right if they choose to do so. Anyway they didn't steal the contents from anywhere. That being said, I'll probably add EE to my block list :)

> but they have the right if they choose to do so

I don't mind their business model, but I can't understand why they appear near the top of so many search results.

Either they are very good at (mis-)using SEO techniques, or there are really many websites linking to them. However, I personally find it hard to believe that any author of a blog article or forum entry links to an EE answer voluntarily.

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