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I just wish search engines would let me block sites. There are maybe a dozen SEO land grabs in my domain that are trashing my search results and provide no value.

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I use a user script called Google Hit Hider by Domain that adds this functionality to pretty much every major search engine. Can't imagine searching without it these days.

This is perfect. Perma-ban, so sweet. Thanks GraemeL!

Too bad search engines aren't using this to improve search results.

Google used to do this, but removed it at some point. As others have noted the same effect is achieveable with browser extensions.

I miss blocking w3schools, now i tend to append `mdn` to my searches.

Likewise.

I'm trying that, and upvoting, on my little search engine project: https://glorp.co

The concept is interesting. The search I tried wasn't helpful: https://glorp.co/Search/vue%20vs%20svelte

Thanks for the feedback! I see a few interesting results on the page that seem relevant to the query (like the jsreport.io link). What did you hope to see that you didn't?

The first n results were not relevant, and Google's were.

Here's what a Google search returns:

* Vue and Svelte — A Lot Alike, But Some Important Differences

* Why SvelteJS may be the best framework for new web devs - Dev.to

* Svelte vs Vue.js | What are the differences? - StackShare

* Svelte.js — First impressions? (vs. React and Vue) – Milosh N. – Medium

* Top 5 Reasons You Should Use Svelte on Your Current Project Right

* Vue and Svelte · Issue #4491 · vuejs/vue · GitHub

There are browser add-ons that do that.

I think search engines need to realize the value of raising their results' quality by allowing users to tell them which sites they think are scummy.

Make it an easy-to-click report button and pretty much every site whose politics I disagree with will get a downvote... every article by a person I disagree with as well. The question is: how useful is that to the search engine, or indeed to myself?

> pretty much every site whose politics I disagree with will get a downvote

If this happens to all sites, wouldn't only the poorer sites stand out? I don't see why one strand of politics would be significantly more likely to downvote.

The more extreme the politics the more able you are to rally the troops for report bombing. You can see this on sites like YouTube.

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