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Re:Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results by near on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:47PM (#21624019)
Google has given up on improving search, much like Microsoft did with IE6 when it became the dominant player. Only real competition would force them to start improving again.

Here is my own userscript that removes any matching URL portions from Google search. It does it in a fancy way with stylesheets so that you never see the Quora, etc results even temporarily before they're removed. It also fixes Google Images to link directly to images again, removes all the tracking URL obfuscations, and more.

https://code.byuu.org/google

Should be more robust than the other alternatives listed, but if not, let me know. I'm always up for improving it more. Contributions also welcome.

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Re:Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results by vezycash on Sunday November 24, 2019 @11:52PM (#21625557)
Try this extension - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

Blacklists domains from search results in 1-click

Firefox Version https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc...

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Re:Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results by doublerabbit on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:00PM (#21624423)
Could you also make it to remove google amp?
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Re:Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results by byuu on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:09PM (#21624469)
I only use the script on my desktop, and so I've never seen an AMP result. I'd need to be able to use the 'inspect element' developer tool on mobile I suppose in order to see how to filter them. Not even sure the script works on mobile though.
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Re:Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results by pasttense01 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @06:52PM (#21624385)
How do you execute this?
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Re:Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results by doublerabbit on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:01PM (#21624430)
Use a add on like greasemonkey
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