Until Google gets its act together, here's a quick way WE can improve search

Posted by serveboy on Friday January 14, 2011 @12:47AM
from the self-post dept.

I was prompted to submit this entry to HN after reading this post: http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/12/google-search/

I've been doing what I describe below for a while and can't imagine living without it. I think with a bit of collaboration everyone can benefit and make Google suck less.

Install this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/eidhkmnbiahhgbgpjpiimdogfidfikgf

And add this to the config:

# Make these domains stand out in results

+en.wikipedia.org

+stackoverflow.com

+github.com

+api.rubyonrails.org

+apple.com

+ruby-doc.org

+codex.wordpress.org

+imdb.com

+alternativeto.net

+superuser.com

+news.ycombinator.com

+.edu/

# SPAM - never show these results

experts-exchange.com

ezinearticles

efreedom.com

about.com

ehow.com

I'm hoping someone can compile a more complete list of the content farms so that I can improve my config (and therefore my search experience). Just adding the major ones (Experts Exchange, etc) as above already makes a huge difference. Could someone maybe post a gist on GitHub with a more complete config?

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Re:Until Google gets its act together, here's a quick way WE... by devicenull on Friday January 14, 2011 @09:13AM (#2103500)

Here's my list of spam sites (I use OptimizeGoogle for firefox to filter them:

/efreedom.com/i

/bigresource.com/i

/thefreecountry.com/i

/sharewareconnection.com/i

/x64bitdownload.com/i

/softpedia.com/i

/tucows.com/i

/softexia.com/i

/mysharonbiz.com/i

/informe.com/i

/whois.net/i

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Re:Until Google gets its act together, here's a quick way WE... by revorad on Friday January 14, 2011 @07:08AM (#2103248)

For programming questions, I created a very simple Google custom search engine, which works quite well for me - http://laughingcomputer.com/search/

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Re:Until Google gets its act together, here's a quick way WE... by pzxc on Friday January 14, 2011 @01:08AM (#2102746)

bigresource.com comes up a lot when I'm searching for esoteric programming-topic solutions, and it's a totally worthless scraper.

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Re:Until Google gets its act together, here's a quick way WE... by serveboy on Friday January 14, 2011 @01:11AM (#2102752)

Added it to a gist @ https://gist.github.com/779253

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Re:Until Google gets its act together, here's a quick way WE... by thebigredjay on Friday January 14, 2011 @01:52AM (#2102823)

Excellent quick fix, thank you!

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