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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 toni »

jellicle wrote: post #28

Free karma points to whoever creates a corresponding Firefox extension...

There is a Greasemonkey script[1] which does blacklisting. It works by sending "-site:example.com" with every search query. The script does a lot more cleanups like removing link tracking and ads, so if you don't feel like using all the functions, look in the code and check out "RemoveBadLinks()" function. Maybe you want to comment all other public functions in init().

[1] http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/79742

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

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Post by lurker17 »

jmillikin wrote: post #12

1. Does this remove results from each page, or from the resultset? In other words, if 7 of the first-page results are blocked, will I see only 3 results on that page? 2. Any plans for a Firefox extension? I'm willing to install Chrome just for running Google searches, but would rather add it to my main browser. e: After a month or so, I would absolutely love to see the top 10 or so blocked domains. It's OK if you can…

#2 If you don't want to wait for Google: http://www.customizegoogle.com/

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

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Post by WesleyJohnson »

jjcm wrote: post #48

Any chance we can get the blocklist transfered via sync in the next iteration of this plugin?

I second that suggestion. It would make the extension that much more awesome to not have to block sites on each device. Might also help to lower the noise on Google's end, so they're not seeing multiple blocks on the same domain from the same users, though I'm sure they account for this already.

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.

Will do. It's already on three of our machines, soon to be seven.

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

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Post by klbarry »

jonknee wrote: post #8
brianwillis wrote: post #5

So HN, what sites are we all blocking?

My first round includes eHow, Mahalo, Associated Content, Experts Exchange, Squidoo and Examiner. Update: I added answers.yahoo.com as well, which has consistently terrible content and yet is often highly ranked.

I really often get exactly the answer I need from Yahoo Answers, just to throw that in there...

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

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Post by ohkine »

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=…

The hiding functionality doesn't interest me, this feature has been available for ages and ages in GreaseMonkey scripts and the like. But sending the information to Google, with the hope that they will eventually use it for something, interests me greatly.

Unfortunately, i don't and can't use Chrome. If all this does though is send a URL request when a site is blocked, it should be extremely trivial (for someone who is smarter and has more free time than me, probably) to re-implement this in a Firefox-compatible form, right?

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

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Post by rsoto »

Having a big company behaving like a local one-- listening to the customer's opinions is really nice.

However, this is a feature that Google actually had. Why did you remove it? I accept the Search Wiki was not particuarly a success[1], but the remove option was very nice.

Alas, thanks for listening. I'll be waiting for the server-side option.

1: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-searc...

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