[Tfug] Blacklisting sites from Google results?

Christopher Robbins robbinsc at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 14:37:32 MST 2007


On 1/22/07, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if there's anyway to prevent Google from returning
> certain sites in it's results.  There are a number of websites that
> frequently show up in my search results that I find utterly useless.
> (I'm specifically thinking of some of the linux-newbie forums but also
> sites that simply copy Wikipedia's results, man pages, etc.)  Anyone
> know if it's possible to prevent Google from returning certain sites?
> Or, alternatively, hiding these sites from me (perhaps a GreaseMonkey
> extension?).
>
> Thoughts or ideas?


Claude -

How about this nifty plugin I looked at awhile back.  I don't remember what
I planned on using it for, and it's been awhile since I've played with it,
but it was the first
thing I thought of when I saw your email

http://www.customizegoogle.com/

-Chris


-- 
Chris Robbins
Systems Programmer
Department of English - University of Arizona
http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net



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