Re:Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result
by chrisshroba on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:30AM
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If you can deal with the aesthetics of every search query containing your blacklist, try creating a custom search engine in your browser with a keyword like "g" (for google) that searches for your query plus "-site:pinterest.com -site:example.com"
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Re:Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result
by Beached on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:25PM
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one of the reasons I borderline hate google now is that the search results do not honor double quoted text, or subtract text like you mentioned. I have tried searched with -site: and google just ignores it and gives me results form there anyways
Re:Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result
by chrisshroba on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:28PM
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It's always worked for me. Would you happen to have an example query that doesn't respect those things?
Re:Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result
by prophesi on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:10PM
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Not OP, but Google Search is a blackbox so it's possible the same query would properly block the designated URLs for you, while remaining unblocked for other users.
Re:Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result
by EastSmith on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:00PM
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How many domains will you be able to remove this way? There is probably some low limit like 50?
Re:Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result
by bagomips on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:38PM
(#27933448)
Not sure if Google does anything to restrict plug-ins from tampering with its results, but domains in DDG results are canonicalized making it trivial to use them as keys in localStorage. So filtering after the fact, while slightly awkward, can work for a list of thousands or millions?