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Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued

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Post by esbwhat » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 10:39 PM UTC

gee_totes wrote: post #40

monkeyfacebag wrote: post #21

I guess I need to go back to manually appending "mdn" to all my html/css/js-related queries. How much longer is w3schools going to stay at the top of those results? EDIT: Actually, it turns out I've been using the linked Chrome extension (went to install, discovered it was already installed). I just conflated the two services and forgot about the extension. So to make this productive, I recommend this extension. I ha…

/me straightens DuckDuckGo independent evangelist hat and nervously rings doorbell "Judging from your comment, you sound like the perfect user for Duck Duck Go! If you set DDG as the default browser for chrome/ff, you can search mdn with just '!mdn foo'. Also at your fingertips is searching !jquery (and hundreds of other search shortcuts) DuckDuckGo is great and makes searching super productive!" /me smiles eagerly

Can I ask you why you see DDG as the perfect alternative to google? One would think that if you are concerned with the sort of things google is doing, you would bank on an open source search engine, so this sort of thing doesn't just repeat itself.

Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued

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Post by Xion » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 10:43 PM UTC

gee_totes wrote: post #40

monkeyfacebag wrote: post #21

I guess I need to go back to manually appending "mdn" to all my html/css/js-related queries. How much longer is w3schools going to stay at the top of those results? EDIT: Actually, it turns out I've been using the linked Chrome extension (went to install, discovered it was already installed). I just conflated the two services and forgot about the extension. So to make this productive, I recommend this extension. I ha…

/me straightens DuckDuckGo independent evangelist hat and nervously rings doorbell "Judging from your comment, you sound like the perfect user for Duck Duck Go! If you set DDG as the default browser for chrome/ff, you can search mdn with just '!mdn foo'. Also at your fingertips is searching !jquery (and hundreds of other search shortcuts) DuckDuckGo is great and makes searching super productive!" /me smiles eagerly

You might want to check YubNub [0], which is an enhanced version of this prefixes idea. If anything, you don't have to prepend your queries with ! there :)

[0] http://www.yubnub.org

Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued

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Post by esbwhat » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 10:45 PM UTC

skylan_q wrote: post #70

ebbv wrote: post #41

Removing a feature that fixes a major shortcoming of your product (spam sites) and directing your customers to use an extension to fix it is awful. What faith I once had in Google being a company that puts users first is long gone.

Google has been shutting down features left, right and centre. I'm left wondering: what useful thing has google done since gmail and ads?

well, android

Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued

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Post by bhauer » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 10:48 PM UTC

mxfh wrote: post #44

monkeyfacebag wrote: post #21

I guess I need to go back to manually appending "mdn" to all my html/css/js-related queries. How much longer is w3schools going to stay at the top of those results? EDIT: Actually, it turns out I've been using the linked Chrome extension (went to install, discovered it was already installed). I just conflated the two services and forgot about the extension. So to make this productive, I recommend this extension. I ha…

In Chrome you can just add something like https://www.google.com/search?q=mdn+%s https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=%s to the bottom of you search engine list with shortcut letters of your choice (e.g. "m") chrome://settings/searchEngines Then typing "m query" into the omnibox is even faster than resorting to google first.

Same can be done in Firefox on any bookmark using the "Keyword" attribute in the bookmark editor user interface.

Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued

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Post by olalonde » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 10:49 PM UTC

skylan_q wrote: post #70

ebbv wrote: post #41

Removing a feature that fixes a major shortcoming of your product (spam sites) and directing your customers to use an extension to fix it is awful. What faith I once had in Google being a company that puts users first is long gone.

Google has been shutting down features left, right and centre. I'm left wondering: what useful thing has google done since gmail and ads?

Self driving cars? Android?

Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued

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Post by pgrote » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 10:52 PM UTC

alainbryden wrote: post #54

I don't remember using this feature much, but when I downloaded my block list this is what I found: www.teachexcel.com craftkeys.com softwaretopic.informer.com www.telerik.com eggheadcafe.com www.kaboodle.com bigresource.com Damn those aggregator sites are annoying.

Why Telerik?

Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued

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Post by ScottWhigham » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 10:59 PM UTC

What disturbs me is how it's okay for Google to allow this "for Chrome users only" but it's a $700m fine for Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer into the OS. Is Microsoft really more of a monopoly than Google? Of course not. It's ridiculous that MSFT gets fined such high amounts but no one questions Google's ethics or says, "Hey, wait a minute..."

Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued

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Post by Snowda » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 11:06 PM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #75

skylan_q wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google has been shutting down features left, right and centre. I'm left wondering: what useful thing has google done since gmail and ads?

Self driving cars? Android?

I do love my self driving car

Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued

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Post by aw3c2 » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 11:08 PM UTC

monkeyfacebag wrote: post #21

I guess I need to go back to manually appending "mdn" to all my html/css/js-related queries. How much longer is w3schools going to stay at the top of those results? EDIT: Actually, it turns out I've been using the linked Chrome extension (went to install, discovered it was already installed). I just conflated the two services and forgot about the extension. So to make this productive, I recommend this extension. I ha…

I understand all the negativity but I still often go to w3schools. Why? Because the example is right there. On MDN I always have to scroll. Loading times are also much faster with w3schools.

Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued

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Post by lukeholder » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 11:09 PM UTC

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #31

Shank wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personal Blacklist is an official Google extension, it just doesn't sync with anything or save to a database. At least for my purposes, I don't need it anywhere but my desktop machine to help out in result pruning (experts exchange, fixya). Their offered download link doesn't even work for me, it just notifies me of its shutdown.

Are you logged in? There is a link at the bottom of the page to download it. It isn't very prominent; I almost missed it.

im not getting it either: http://d.pr/i/CMx0