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Bam, no more wareseeker or efreedom.
This would solve a lot of people's complaints in one fell swoop.
There are greasemonkey etc. scripts to do this, but they're tied to a single browser on a single machine. A global filter (like in gmail) would be so much more useful.
Would this be particularly hard to do?
I do hope those working on the algorithm are taking note.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-searc...
In the interim, you can do your searches by adding -wareseeker -efreedom to the search string.
Usability-wise, though, it's not nearly as much use as a 'ban' button next to each result would be. But it shows Google already have the infrastructure and code that would allow this -- they just need to make it instant to use.
EDIT: The other downside of this is you lose a load of bells & whistles, e.g. previews, "pages from the UK" (without typing), icons for images/news/etc. Time will tell if I miss those.
Traditionally google seem against human powered editing (as this would be), but I think as the black hat SEOs run rings around them, its needed badly.
In the interim, you can do your searches by adding -wareseeker -efreedom to the search string.
I've discovered you can also set up a Custom Search Engine, with no included sites (default to everything), and specifically exclude the sites you don't want. Then do all your searches through this. http://www.google.com/cse/ Usability-wise, though, it's not nearly as much use as a 'ban' button next to each result would be. But it shows Google already have the infrastructure and code that would allow this -- they jus…
And no more bloody experts-exchange...
Do people realise that if Google is your referrer, you can scroll all the way down and see the solutions to the question?
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I've discovered you can also set up a Custom Search Engine, with no included sites (default to everything), and specifically exclude the sites you don't want. Then do all your searches through this. http://www.google.com/cse/ Usability-wise, though, it's not nearly as much use as a 'ban' button next to each result would be. But it shows Google already have the infrastructure and code that would allow this -- they jus…
But its not free, right ?