Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

Re:Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Googl... by littlecranky67 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @11:31AM (#29796637)

Fully agree, its an endless cats'n'mice game, as SEO spammers create new pages on new domains with automated wordpress deployments in no-time.

Instead of a blacklist, a whitelist like a curated list of links à la Yahoo would be better approach, or something with upvote/reputation/karma as on HN.

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Re:Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Googl... by chiefalchemist on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:18PM (#29797200)

Funny enough. Years back I poked around Google Custom search. As a laugh I used it to index and search Quora (which was still a high quality site then). But I contemplated setting up a series of specialty search engines (e.g., JavaScript) such that I would feed Custom Search a list of URLs and/or rules for what to index.

I never took any further than "what a cool idea".

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Re:Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Googl... by sanketpatrikar on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @11:34AM (#29796670)

I'm interested in that alternative too. Does a whitelist like that exist?

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