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Re:Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results ... by smcameron on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:15PM (#23297429)
When I worked for google as SRE for the web crawler, I low key advocated for de-indexing pinterest, but didn't get anywhere, (this is unsurprising, I was a nobody there.) I have no insight into why they don't de-index pinterest, but I know pinterest was on the radar as a thing of some sort. Meantime, I just add "-site:pinterest.*" to image queries... which I gather is probably more or less the sort of thing this addon does.
Re:Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results ... by Ayesh on Monday May 25, 2020 @01:43AM (#23298250)
You don't have to answer this if you don't feel like it, but I always wondered if "-site:food.bar" is a search signal against that web site when Google ranks domains.