davehcker

Right! I have still not finished it, but it's truly enchanting and exactly as you mentioned.

Actually something I'm planning to do once I get some time. Can't find any sources to get enough websites say, ~500+

My regimen is kind of the same. But then when I look at things like myself, the world, human nature, the stars, etc. my brain just freezes. I'm willing to accept even a 'fuzzy' sense of meaning, but it should be coherent. Every now and then I'm taunted by this pursuit and sometimes it just cripples me.

Any tips on how you generate/develop the 'cringy', 'applicable' filters? Is that also something you'd say learned by watching others?

> Stick this on a fridge - No one really wants to deal with shit forever. Especially after it hits the fan again and again and again. I will :)

I've the same itch with ebooks/papers (pdf, epub, azw3, etc). It's impossible for me manage them and keep them portable. Great work! I'll definitely check this out. The logo is lovely too.

You mean why not fully remove the URL? That's just in the odd case you really do want to visit the link (after Google think that it's a good result). May be example.com happens to be the ONLY website that does have some good content, I personally wouldn't want to ban it entirely. But in every case, I'd like to strip their results so I won't have to scroll down to get to the good results.

It's an enhancement issue I've already added to the repository on Github. Planning to roll it out in the next update :) Honestly, I didn't know how big of a pain it was to a lot of people until now.

Never experienced the latter; but couldn't agree more on the first issue. Actually if you'd not articulated it I'd have thought it was only me. These (farm?) have super awesome titles and content description but then takes to (ph|f)ishy pages. Usually happens to me when I search "[Ebook Title] download". Interestingly of the late I don't see a lot of them after coming to Europe (and see Google mentioning some GDPR compliance related omissions).

Care to elaborate please?

I'll take this into account too towards my attempt in making it more customizable.

I am thinking about more customization, especially this that allows the user to 1. suppress (like now) or 2. remove the results entirely. But in my defence, it was a weekend project for a noob like me.

But that way you'd be avoiding the results completely(even in the unlikely event that they could be potentially helpful)

I'd be more than pleased to merge your relevant pull requests.

Apparently some people prefer the fact that the results are not fully removed. I have a better idea- to let the users decide it, so for v.1.0 I'm going to take these two ideas into account: 1. CSS-ify to suppress the results, 2. Remove them fully.

Ordering is something that I'm not sure about (but I've myself been thinking about it for a future addon- if not the current one) that would 'weigh' the URLs like .edu/wikipedia etc. much higher. Would such a feature be helpful to you? And as a part of the same addon?

As for only results from specific websites, you may use Google Operators (like inurl, site, etc.)

1. My hatred for Chrome (kind of recent HN influence) led me into Firefox first and foremost hence Firefox. Even though I'll be porting it to Chrom(ium-e) soon. 2. It could be my attitude but I thought writing ground up vanilla would be much easier than learning a new tool, i.e., I know Greasemonkey only as much as in its name and nothing else about its workflow. 2.1 I guess an addon is easier to distribute/install (?).

Thanks; I fixed it.

"-domain.tld" has the side-effect that it'd not get any results from those domains then; which might not be a good idea (at least in 1% of those cases when say "-domain.tld" might be what exactly you're looking for".

Thanks. No that has the potential issue of assuming that results from your blacklist are complete crap. That'd be equivalent of removing the search results based on the blacklist entirely (right?). Based on a comment here on HN as well, I think that's not necessarily a good idea. You don't know what you don't know, so may be a blacklisted website may return a valid result (unlikely but probable, so I'm letting that assumption be there).

And feel free to contribute on Github if you like :)

I'm not aware about other similar tools. But I'll be soon porting and submitting on Chrome as well.

This is very inspirational! Actually I have something similar in mind- 1. to allow subscribing to friend's or network's lists. and/or 2. Make it a 'window' to your search experience. So it's privacy focused personal/social logic that offers you Google or any search engine that way you prefer. I think PageRank is not enough (or may be too much) for me...

I never personally used Bing much (but memes have told me the same about its search quality). I will take into consideration for the next execution.

I have been also mildly pissed at Youtube results and given how permeated it is into a 'learner's' life, I have been thinking about Youtube too. But in that case I'll have to take more usability into account to allow for right-click>add_to_blacklist kind of thing since there are so many low-quality ad-loaded channels.

It basically lets you create a list of blacklisted URLs and then any Google search results that matches against these URLs is stripped to the bare URL alone. The screenshot on the Firefox Addons page is of a much better quality.

Thanks. I'd sure take those into account in the next iteration. It was my weekend project :)

I didn't want to name call, but here they go- tutorialspoint.com and geeksforgeeks.org

Thanks. Same here and I tried to keep it as vanilla as possible. Let me know if and I can improve it (either here or using Github issues).

I wrote this because I was so annoyed by irrelevant low-quality search results for my queries on Google. For instance if I'm looking up for Python xyz topic, 99% of the times I am not interested in some 'low-quality' content (based on my personal preferences) from website example.com.

The plugin maintains a persistent and customizable list of URLs (keywords) that are used as a 'blacklist' for stripping results.

Danke! It's really helpful.

I'm on a self-imposed sabbatical i.e. graduate school so I'm able to do quick context switching between the following things (no specific orders):

1. FINALLY, reading, chewing and digesting LISP. I can see the 'magical' prowess in it- but still not fully there.

2. Formalizing and standardizing an algorithm for one-shot learning using 'old-school' machine learning techniques that is freaking light-weight. Performs well on my problem set i.e. recognizing users from their mouse patterns (with as little as 10 secs of activity). But standardizing it to test it and benchmarking and then hopefully releasing it. Publication implementing the algorithm got rejected though :(

3. Growing highest quality and fresh produce indoors. Covid-19 has impacted some of my personal financial capacity but still doing my best. hexafarms.com

4. Writing essays.

5. A DSL for API testing (with things like API chaining, replay attacks, etc.)- the idea is to stack features slowly and then put a UI on top of it. Something like BurpSuite for those in the cysec space, but for programmers and pointy-haired bosses alike.