The web is awash with articles written and published that have no ads, but consist of content which has been written to promote products/services where these products/services have paid for that content to appear and rank well organically. What I presume you call ads can be viewed a transparent boosting of ranking transparently using money. So binary classifcation of ads/no ads is going to tricky.

I would use it. You could probably wrap current search engines and crawl sites for <ad> tags etc. and label them as ad vs non ad from there in very basic way and them get more complicated with built-up heuristics.

There are search engines that don't include ads... Ecosia, StartPage, Qwant and probably others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines You could also use browser extensions uBound Origin and Privacy Badger to take control.

> There are search engines that don't include ads... Ecosia, StartPage, Qwant and probably others

Ecosia and Qwant use Microsoft Advertising. StartPage use AdSense.

Sorry I can see how I wasn't clear.

Ads on *search results page* are OK.

No *search results* to pages that contain ads.

I like the idea! There are a lot of websites that have so many ads the article is impossible to read.

Mine would go:

<Logo>

[Enter your query] (Search All Sites) (Search Only Sites you've white-listed over the years, and "machine-learning guesses of similar sites" to those)

Where whitelisted in my personal case = Reddit, HN, StackOverflow, Slatestarcodex, nomadlist, airlines you regularly fly, government regulations you regularly check, etc

And where "Search All Sites" doesn't include Pinterest and its myriad TLDs.

Oh this is a great idea!

Does Google still let you create your own custom Search Engines? I forget.

I think there could be a pretty native way to make a working prototype of this idea (just add 1,000s+ of ad free approved domains).

I'd use it.

[x] exclude alexa top 100,000 sites