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Comment by jws | Hacker News Reader

In days of old it was pretty easy to ban a site from your Google search results. It looks like they have removed that function.

I wonder why? I know I liked having certain low value (to me) sites not clutter up my results.

A little article about the feature, sorry it is going to try to throw an interrupting DIV at you– https://searchengineland.com/google-block-sites-feature-1464...

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It's in the article you linked to, but I suppose Google expects everyone to use their Personal Blocklist Chrome extension now: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

Ah, so they removed it to peddle their Chrome browser.

This kind of extension is available for every browser.

They are usually broken because Google often pushes shady obfuscated updates.

IIRC the OFFICIAL "Personal Blocklist" was broken for a long time due to this.

AFAIK there's still no way to block entire TLDs.

So basically Google doesn't give a shit about you!

It seems the extension is only half-working.

The "Block foo.com" links don't appear in the search result anymore, but if I visit the website and block it through the extension pop-up they are then eliminated from the search results in future searches.

One more reason for Google being a very scammy advertising company (they stopped being a search company years ago):

You can not blacklist entire TLDs, just individual subdomains.

Thanks to ICANN (and others?) there is hundreds of TLDs that are 100% full of spam. And they all are able to game the system.

Google has lost the SEO War IMHO.

If they are not willing to innovate they should be broken up via anti-trust.

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