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| Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results? | ||
| recommended by 1 user | 2022 | 374 points by sanketpatrikar | search engines | original thread | | ||
For the unaware, uBlacklist [0] is a browser extension that lets you blacklist sites from the google search results page. It lets you blacklist sites right from the results page, by regex, or by linking lists hosted somewhere. The low quality of results has been a problem from a while now and has become worse lately thanks to all those StackOverflow and Github clones. So I was wondering if we could come together and contribute to a single blacklist hosted somewhere and then import it into each of our browsers. Who knows? We might end up improving the quality of the results we all get. Lists to get rid of the StackOverflow and Github clones already exist. [1] I would love to contribute to a project like this, but won't be able to be a maintainer due to time constraints. Would greatly appreciate it if someone could host this. A simple txt file on github would do. What do you say, HN? [0]: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist [1]: https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist | ||
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| jedwhite Feb 15, 2022 | on: Google Search Is Dying | context |
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There have been many interesting threads recently about the decline of Google's search quality here on HN. There's zero doubt search results are getting worse, and that ads and spam are the cause. But Google's financial performance has been going from record to record. So there is a huge disconnect building in the market.
Each thread has had some common themes, but what's surprising is how different the problems discussed are. Here are a few of the best recent discussions:
Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories (twitter.com/mwseibel):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136
Search engines and SEO spam (twitter.com/paulg):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782186
Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794372
DuckDuckGo Traffic - with spam discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29852783
Is Google Search Deteriorating?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29886423
Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30031672
Tell HN: Google doesn't work anymore for exact matches
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30130535
For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30213110
Disclaimer: I'm working on a search startup, so I have a clear bias, but one of the main reasons I am working on a search startup is because Google's results are clearly getting worse.