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My Google experience would be improved immeasurably if there was a way for me to block domains after I decide I never want to see them in my search results again.

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Another poster has already suggested `uBlacklist` so I won't waste bandwidth by repeating the link, but I want to underline the utility of this extension, because it's transformed my experience of using Google search for code problems.

Before using this, I was finding the first page of my search results were overwhelmed with StackOverflow-scrapers, which returned SO answers reformatted into some sort of garbage and unreadable 'blog-post'.

Nowadays, after blocking twenty/thirty/fifty(?) of these sites, I get to where I want as fast as I did 10 years ago.

Could you share the url list?

There's a public ruleset for this: https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-stackoverflow-translatio...

Nice!

If anyone want to share other such lists, however subjective, I would be grateful

edit: found another one, https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-github-translation

Also you can use this for uBlock https://letsblock.it

What's the difference from letblockit to ublacklist? Is letblockit affiliated to ublock origin in some way?

Don't think they are affiliated, it's just something that I mainly use as a companion for uBlock to help me quickly generate filters etc.

You can also use it to block paywalled and clickbait content. For example, you can safely ignore anything from cnet.com or digitaltrends.com. There's a few niche-specific sites in my blocklist.

Searching for Python API docs and getting w3schools and geeksforgeeks results is frustrating. Is there a solution to this problem? Maybe even a browser extension?

That one's easy if you use duckduckgo.

!py urlunsplit

redirects you to:

https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=urlunsplit

If you are searching for docs, then https://devdocs.io/ might be better than a regular search engine.

Letting you blacklist a site is one thing. They could improve upon it by letting people downvote/upvote pages and then using their extensive information vault to decide who is somewhat reputable or just similar to you.

I mean, I am 40 years old programmer/entrepreneur interested in sports and traditional board and card games. I like nice restaurants and hotels and even sometimes write Google reviews on them. I have my Gmail account since the beginning and I am paying YouTube and Google services customer. I am using Google phones since the Nexus. Google knows who I am, what I like, where I visit. It's pretty good at estimating revenue of my company. What about using the info for something useful for once and just show me pages people like me liked and don't show me pages people like me think are spam/scam? Please?

That may sound promising on paper, but I give it at most 6 months before an up/downvote manipulation SEO industry emerges and starts destroying any burgeoning improvements in the quality of search results.

Not to mention anything even slightly political or divisive in nature will quickly become chaos.

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

That looks great, thanks. Installing it now!

I've been burned in the past by relying on extensions like these, which only work until Google change their HTML and then the extension author is (understandably) burned out and doesn't update the extension, and eventually I just give up and uninstall it... I'd be a lot happier if this was a core Google Search feature. But I understand that Google don't make money by blocking their (paying) customers (spammers who run ads) from their search results.

Google used to have this feature. Why did they remove it?

Because it was gamed.

Then they should have simply ignored the signal, not canned the feature

Of course, not the same but the Google News thing on Android lets you say you're not interested in this suggestion or don't show me this news source again.

You mean allow people to block Google properties in search? No way I guess.

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