Re:Google is Breaking the Internet
by selmnoo on Sunday May 18, 2014 @04:01PM
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Hey Matt_Cutts, sorry that this is a little off-topic, I don't really know what would be the correct medium for this... so here I go: could you please kill mypdfmanuals.com from Google hits? I was searching for some instruction manuals (my exactly query was: <pax wardrobe manual filetype:pdf>), and again and again the top hits were unhelpful mypdfmanuals.com links, which don't even have manuals, they just tell you to go a site where you can get the "full version" of instruction manuals that are otherwise publicly available for free.
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Re:Google is Breaking the Internet
by magicalist on Sunday May 18, 2014 @04:13PM
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This doesn't help solve the problem itself (and is an annoying extra step), but as a user you can append '-site:annoyingsite.com' to your query to get rid of results from the offender.
If you use Chrome try the Personal Blocklist extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
Google web search has a feedback page.
As you can imagine the process is opaque. I have reported some sub-optimal websites and seen a difference a few weeks later. I have no idea if my comment was read by a human let alone whether any action was taken as a result.