Ask HN: Best way to filter out Medium from Google search

Posted by omrjml on Sunday July 26, 2020 @02:55AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I find the low quality articles on Medium, quite often behind a paywall, are making the finding decent content in already struggling Google search results even harder. What's the most convenient way to filter out these results, other than using -site*.com every time?

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to filter out Medium from Google search by raffraffraff on Sunday July 26, 2020 @03:12AM (#23955079)

I use uBlacklist Firefox addon to block results from Google. It adds a block link to every result. If an annoying website is in the list, block out and you'll never see it in the results again. Bye bye pinterest, slant, stackshare, ebay. With Pinterest and eBay you need to edit the block and add every country TLD or they'll creep in via .co.uk, .ie, .fr etc.

TBH Medium isn't nearly as bad as those I've just mentioned.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to filter out Medium from Google search by omrjml on Sunday July 26, 2020 @03:45AM (#23955223)

Thanks for the pointers there. You are right, that list is even worse. I'm just finding Medium particularly annoying if I search for anything related to machine learning or data science. It is just full of post after post of people regurgitating other basic content. Or maybe that's an indictment on the state of these fields.

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