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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by caymanjim on Friday December 25, 2020 @07:08PM (#25540202)
There use to be an easy way to configure your account to always block certain domains, but that's gone now, so you have to use -site per-query. Maybe there are browser plugins that help? I miss the old functionality. I only had to block about a dozen sites to get great search results. Maybe it'd be less viable now; I'd probably have to block hundreds or thousands of sites, and they'd keep breeding new ones.
Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by kazinator on Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:01AM (#25541752)
Just make a search that excludes all the domains you despise. Don't include any search terms or just a dummy one.

Then save it as a bookmark.

e.g.

  "-site:foo.* -site:bar.* ..."

Use that bookmark as your search engine: click on it, then fill in search terms.
Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by giancarlostoro on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:51PM (#25541242)
You used to be able to tweak part of the URL in the Firefox google search thing, and append queries I thought so as well.