Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

Post by upbeat_general » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 12:21 AM UTC

fsflover wrote: post #187

upbeat_general wrote: post #184

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I’m not sure why you think that a domain blocklist would be harder than custom search engine development. Plus there’s no private Google API here, just an extension that removes search results from the page. I suppose you could say the extension APIs are from Google (Chromium) but they’re certainly not private and are commonly used.

Doesn't this extension depend on how exactly the ads are presented on the page? Can't this be changed by Google easily? > I’m not sure why you think that a domain blocklist would be harder than custom search engine development. I didn't say this. The custom search is already created. Helping it's development is much easier now. AFAIK it's main problem is the lack of hosted servers.

Post by dredmorbius » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 1:26 AM UTC

kcfantastic wrote: post #199

dredmorbius wrote: post #65

TL;DR: I strongly suspect that relatively small, personally-curated lists will be much more appropriate and highly effective. These might be augmented with specific classifications, but probably not on a widespread basis. Though the proposed solution borrows heavily from concepts long used in email and Usenet spam, there are a few critical distinction in SEO SERP[1] spam which both make a widely-crowdsourced listing…

I've been building something similar to this with https://fantastic.link . Would love to get your feedback! I think empowering individuals to curate the web would create stronger social and financial incentives to improve online indexing (I.e: Shopify vs Amazon). 20 years ago we could approximate quality from backlinks from credible sites, in the age of social media it seems this signal has shifted towards what creat…

Post by gremlinsinc » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 3:07 AM UTC

AmosLightnin wrote: post #210

Shouldn't we make a plugin for SearX that learns from the results you click, so that the customization and machine learning is on the client side? That way search becomes a commodity, but the final selection algorithm's behavior is owned by the user.

Post by kajiryoji » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 5:09 AM UTC

u2077 wrote: post #150

antihero wrote: post #124

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Hmm, annoyingly some bloody invite based thing instead of just being able to try the damn thing. What is this, 2004?

They also have a browser that’s still in beta. Here’s the direct link to test flight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/DeC8ZDnu (got this after a month on the waitlist)

Post by nixcraft » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 8:15 AM UTC

zxexz wrote: post #132

nixcraft wrote: post #122

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May I know why my domain (cyberciti.biz) was added to that list? I created my site back in 2000, and there was no StackOverflow or anything. So much for creating original content and then getting labelled as a spammer. In fact, some of the top answers on StackOverflow were copied from my work without giving any credit to me. Some people do give credit tho. But, go ahead block a site that actual humans maintain over 2…

cyberciti.biz is one of the few sites that come up in Google search results for anything code/linux related that has valuable content. I do wonder why someone would block it.