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

This is an excellent step forward, especially since they're sending all of this data to Google for review.

Ideally I'd like to see this just rolled-into the default signed-in search interface, but this will be a good test to see how such a service could work.

A while back, Google let you remove search-entries whenever you were logged-in.

This seems similar but I'm not sure why they didn't just continue letting you remove content straight from the Google page.

The feedback page also now doesn't go directly to a form where you can report a content farm but rather to a bunch of choices (I had trouble even determining what to chose to report Spam - the first one I chose was to report porn). By the time a lot of users have gotten to the report-a-site section, they've probably forgotten the original URL.

It is a complex problem, certainly - reporting websites is a good way to screw your competitors for example.

Discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218382