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Comment by runjake | Hacker News Reader

What do people use to block garbage domains from their Google results? Google results, especially for developer stuff, is so awful -- cluttered with junk sites ripping off content from blogs and Stack Overflow, etc.

I've been trying to figure out some rules for uBlock Origin, but haven't gotten there, yet.

Edit: Multiple fantastic options in the replies, below. Thanks, people!

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https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter is a pretty well maintained list specifically to block copycat developer sites.

Not only did I not know this was a list, I also didn't know it was super easy to add new list to uBlock Origin, thanks!

I've started using https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/ which is a programmable, custom search engine that Google provides. I only include sites that I want to. For news, I have a separate search engine; for programming, I include Gitlab, Github, and others. It's quite nice, and you can share your search engines with others via a public URL.

Another example is creating a "social media" only search engine- I have over 50 social media websites in one of my custom searches, it makes it relatively easy to find another person this way.

> I have over 50 social media websites

What are the others besides the usual 2-3?

https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock

My list is based on this project. It has over 200 items, many of which I was unaware existed.

I've noticed this getting worse recently. We went through a sort of "golden era" where most results would be stack overflow, mailing lists, or blogs and now we're almost back to the "expertsexchange.com" days of spammy results for programming queries.

I use uBlacklist, and I get a "block this site" option on every Google result. Worth a try, I hope it's legit.

Give ublacklist a try. Very effective to content farm.

There are other search engines out there you might want to try. I've been using Kagi and am happy with it. Even though Google is one of their sources (probably the main one), they do things like omit sites that scrape Stack Overflow. They also re-order results assuming their user is tech savvy.

ublacklist is what I've been using, works well.

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There was kagi.com here on HN a few weeks ago, I've been mighty pleased

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