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Comment by kevin_thibedeau | Hacker News Reader

They have a fix already and applied it to the Wikipedia clones. They intentionally ignore other content scrapers because they drive ad impressions.

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> because they drive ad impressions.

Could you explain why?

If Google replaces SEO trash with decent results, the ads they will show on the Search page will remain unchanged. How would the impressions suffer? Or rather, since Google charges per click not per impression for search ads, how would ad clicks suffer?

In fact, I thought low-quality organic search results are purely a negative for Google profits, since users (over a very long run) move their search elsewhere (Tiktok, Reddit, etc.).

It's about the ads on the SEO trash pages. Those pages are typically loaded with ads which increases the likelihood you click on them.

I wish google had a feature to permanently ban domains from search results.

There are browser add-ons that can do this (for example, uBlacklist).

Kagi has that feature.

They had a personal block list at one point... but removed it.

There is a chrome addon called uBlacklist that auto-hides domains (configurable) in the google search results.

Why not just create your own search box and put -site:domain.xyz in the query? Maybe there is a length limit but at least you can ban some

this list is really helpful

https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

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