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I do that to remove Medium websites from my Google search. It's a disgrace to the free internet and the amount of garbage on it is staggering.
also 'towards data science';
Yes, that too.
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Nuking Pinterest off of the Internet is what immediately came to my mind as well!
Pinterest is a hate/love relationship. Sometimes it's like a kind of archive of things which have disappeared on other sites (imagine certain clothes you cannot buy anymore). I actually like that they really make a copy of the content. But of course this is totally non tech related.
I wouldn't call it an archive, it's more of a fragment. There's usually no context or link back to the source so it merely exists as evidence that you're not insane.
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#294I miss the days when this was a feature built into Google. It could do all the removal server side. I love uBlacklist. However, when I started to "block" scam sites I became acutely aware of just how many there are. It is like playing endless whack a mole. I recently have had the need download some Windows software and all the top links from Google are scam sites. By that I mean they pretend to look like the legitima…
> However, when I started to "block" scam sites I became acutely aware of just how many there are. It is like playing endless whack a mole.
Someone ought to build a service that indexes websites based on how relevant they are to the user and only return those results, sorted by relevance.
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#295For those interested in this functionality, Kagi search engine (currently in beta) has this built in natively. The counter-part feature (domain boost) is also available. https://kagi.com
> Our searching includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing. Are they sleeping with the directors of Bing and Google Search to be allowed to do that, or do they use one of these shady companies that proxy google search through hacked computers ?
There is an API for both.
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> I miss the days when this was a feature built into Google. It could do all the removal server side. Seriously was this ever possible? On Twitch we can block a channel or category. I believe on Twitter you can say "not interested" although it is more obscure what it does. Google really should have a way of saying "not interested in this website, ever". Plus, wouldn't that be useful data for them?
> Seriously was this ever possible? Yes. Many years ago the "..." menu on each search result had a "Block this domain" button, and you could manage your blocklist from your profile. I can't find much information about it online, but this page from 2012[1] mentions it was already disabled: Google also offers a web dashboard for manually blocking spam websites, one URL at a time. You can add up to 500 different website…
Found the original post where this feature was announced: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-m...
Note that it was not even on the "..." menu (it didn't exist at the time), it was a naked button under every result, reading "Block all example.com results".
Chuck another feature into the pile of "look how far we've regressed".
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I'm not seeing it: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=crochet+ducks&iax=images&ia...
This post is about Google, DDG doesn't rank Pinterest the same way. https://www.google.com/search?q=crochet+ducks&tbm=isch Although I have to admit that the amount of Pinterest results for this search term is acceptable (I see 2 in the top 10).
I’ve just tested a few searches and I can’t see any Pinterest. I used to really struggled with Pinterest contamination and it looks there is none now?
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> Our searching includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing. Are they sleeping with the directors of Bing and Google Search to be allowed to do that, or do they use one of these shady companies that proxy google search through hacked computers ?
There is an API for both.
The Google one is restricted to a small subset of websites so it's useless for a generic search engine. https://developers.google.com/custom-search
The Bing one wants you to write Bing©®™ everywhere, requires you to track your user with their trackers, and forbids most features that would make an alternative search engine useful, such as sorting or filtering the results. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-web-search-ap...
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At least you can -exclude those names. Gas station convenience stores come up for "grocery store" searches, yet they're all named differently.
Google maps doesn't seem to support `-exclude` like Google/DDG search does.
You're right. I noticed this on Bing Maps before, but hadn't noticed Google following suit.
It makes these sites so much less useful. Their unique location catalog is the reason I usually prefer Google, then Bing, over Here Maps or whatever OSM thing. But it's harder and harder to query it to receive anything useful.
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#300As others have said, it can also be done with a uBlock filter. For example, here are my filters that block and remove terrible copycats/translations of StackOverflow https://gist.github.com/quenhus/6bd2c47e5780f726f0c96c0a2ee7... . I hate these copies that somehow manage to be better referenced than StackOverflow.
github-wiki-see.page is a new one I came across today.