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uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by colordrops »

a-dub wrote: post #26
philistine wrote: post #2

This is such a great idea, and a mystery as to why no search engine has dared to put it on their engine. Care to enlighten me?

i suspect google does not support user configurable spam filtering because spam filtering is one of their big value adds. their job is to return relevant and spam free results in a user friendly manner. if they made client side filtering a thing, and it allowed their spam filtering efforts to shrink because "the users can always filter it themselves" then their overall product would suffer. i imagine also it's a matt…

Doubt it, it's more likely that they want to maintain full control over results. They likely have certain results they don't want you to filter. Also, relevance can change over time. You might filter out something now that made sense to filter out now but not in the future after the site changed and got reindexed.

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by driverdan »

ma2rten wrote: post #6
blibble wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

google used to have the personal blocklist extension not sure what happened to it...

I think it was a stop gap solution because Google was overrun with spam sites, like Expert Village, before Google did the Panda update. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda

It's still a huge problem. Try searching for a product or product category. For example, search for "best winter coat" on Google. Half the sites are low quality affiliate link farms who don't know anything more about the product than what's in their Amazon description.

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by OzyM »

chx wrote: post #33

There's a specific extension doing this for w3schools. Congratulations are in order, I guess...? For being so horrible for so long to have an extension created long ago to nuke you, that is. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-w3schools/g...

Could someone explain why they're hated? I don't know much about E3, but used them a few times without issue

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by cwojno »

Waterluvian wrote: post #8
philistine wrote: post #2

This is such a great idea, and a mystery as to why no search engine has dared to put it on their engine. Care to enlighten me?

It hurts Google to allow the product to choose what customers have access to it.

I see what you did there ;)

Re: uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

OzyM wrote: post #34
chx wrote: post #33

There's a specific extension doing this for w3schools. Congratulations are in order, I guess...? For being so horrible for so long to have an extension created long ago to nuke you, that is. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-w3schools/g...

Could someone explain why they're hated? I don't know much about E3, but used them a few times without issue

I am not sure of the current state of affairs, but in the past (5-10 years ago or longer) w3schools was known for having outdated or sometimes flat out wrong information. They often rank or ranked higher than MDN which is usually the best and most comprehensive source on the subject. So a front end dev would typically want to always see MDN over w3schools.
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