I am currently self-hosting a meta search engine instance (searxng), which allows me combine searches from different engines (e.g. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc), but also to filter out websites that I don’t want to show up.

The only website to make my blacklist so far is slant.co (useless SEO-riddled site that always comes up when I search for software comparisons). I also automatically redirect all reddit.com links to old.reddit.com.

I’m looking to expand this list. So, which websites do you blacklist? Either using software, or just mentally.

  • mat3ck@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been using a Firefox extension instead that has fairly good filters by default, because I kept getting crap results when looking at technical questions (ie. landing on over-simplified examples without details instead of official documentation).

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/

    They publish some subscription lists of things blocked that you can chose from: splogs of GitHub/Stack overflow, Pinterest… And then you can add custom blocks directly from your results list (Quora…). It can be a nice point to start with to use their filter even out of the extension imo.

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    1 year ago

    It’s tough because I almost feel like I need a whitelist at this point. 90% of the first page of Google results usually read like AI-generated fluff that doesn’t actually even answer my question. There are a handful of websites I trust now to give me real information and not just clickbait SEO nonsense.

    I’m at the point where I add “reddit” to the end of every search just to try and find something that was written by a real person. Maybe someday I can start adding “lemmy” instead.

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      1 year ago

      Seriously, 10 years ago, the best way to find any info on a video game was to go on gamefaqs, ign guides, the steam community or a dedicated wiki.

      Nowadays, it objectively still is the exact same, but google will give results for NONE OF THEM unless if you specify. There’s a truckload of those SEO garbage.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t blacklist on the ip level but I do use a userscript to blacklist domains from showing up in my search results

    https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-domain-search-filter-block-sites

    These are the domains currently blocked

    9to5google.com
    about.fb.com
    about.instagram.com
    business.instagram.com
    cnet.com
    developer.android.com
    developers.google.com
    ebay.com
    facebook.com
    facebookbrand.com
    fileproinfo.com
    gadgets.ndtv.com
    guidebooks.google.com
    help.instagram.com
    lifehacker.com
    microsoft.com
    orangefreesounds.com
    research.fb.com
    rover.ebay.com
    support.google.com
    support.ring.com
    twitter.com
    www.addictivetips.com
    www.androidauthority.com
    www.androidheadlines.com
    www.collectorsweekly.com
    www.digitaltrends.com
    www.howtogeek.com
    www.instagram.com
    www.lifewire.com
    www.quora.com
    www.storyblocks.com
    www.theverge.com