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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by rightbyte on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:29AM (#32352864)
> find a way to filter out all of the spam

It is the same spam sites I see again and again. A manual blacklist from one puny FTE would probably clean up the wast majority.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by nikanj on Friday August 05, 2022 @05:40AM (#32353744)
But that would involve hiring a human. Google's prime directive is "Never hire a human do a job well, when you can train AI to do the same job badly"
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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by graftak on Friday August 05, 2022 @04:08AM (#32353118)
They could even crowd source this by allowing users to block domains from search results, which should affect its ranking long term.
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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by jpindar on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:26PM (#32358360)
As with so many things, they used to do this then inexplicably stopped.
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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by anticensor on Saturday August 06, 2022 @11:52AM (#32369150)
You can use -inurl:example.com
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