Tired of seeing search results from certain websites? Google's got your back.
Google today announced a new feature for Google Search that enables users to block certain sites from appearing in search results.
"Perhaps the result just wasn’t quite right," say Google's Amay Champaneria and Beverly Yang over on the Google blog.
"But sometimes you may dislike the site in general, whether it’s offensive, pornographic or of generally low quality."
If that's the case, Google has introduced a link that will appear when you click "back" on your browser to return to the Google results. This new link allows you to block all results from the site you just visited. Google says you can block up to 500 sites, but there's no mention of whether or not you're able to do a one-time-only block for the sake of a specific search. However, you are able to unblock the site later if you wish, so that should serve as a more convoluted work-around for people who want to block sites on a search-by-search basis.
Interestingly, Google says that while sites will only be blocked for you, the search giant may use every one's blocking information to improve search ranking.
Rolling out on Google.com today, the new feature is available for people using Chrome 9+, IE8+ and Firefox 3.5+. Google will expand to new regions, languages and browsers in the near future.
this was on the net 2 days back.
there should be 2 versions of google for this. one with this enabled, one without as in everyones block effects one search result, while one doesn't care about what people block. because if im looking up porn, i dont want results blocked because other people didnt like them
This seems to be a permanent block though, to add to an account or cookie.
I like this.
Why even post this? Do you think it makes you cool that you know this? This isn't a practical solution at all. What do you do when there are like 10+ fake sites that return results for things that you search for? type them all in separately every time you search? Think.
that would make my day. That's for sure.
One other thing that would be cool, is if there would be a way to search forums or search for websites or blogs, or any other types of sites.
But then... I'll get frustrated that I cannot find any porn...
...and I'll unblock them again...
Damn!
Why even troll? Do you think it make you cool that you do this?
Pot, Kettle, Black......hmmmm!
And this has been available as an extension for chrome for a while now, very handy so far, and now available for all to use, excellent work.
Expert sex change would probably be at the top of most people's block list.
I really dislike that site as well especially since they always expect you to cough up some money. I did figure out that if you scroll down the page for 10 years you will still get to see most of the replies to the original question though.
This makes the site mildly useful from time to time.