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Google Introduces Domain Blocking To Search

Posted by Soulskill on from the see-you-later-yahoo-answers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We recently discussed a new Chrome extension that was introduced to block specified websites from appearing in search results. Now, Google has introduced a new feature that hide results from unwanted domains right from the search page. This is yet another way to find more of what you want on Google by blocking the sites you don't want to see at all in search result. The so-called 'experts exchange' or 'online eHow to guide' would be first on my blocked list." Another neat recent addition was the introduction of Recipe View, which adds depth to food preparation searches.

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  1. Experts Exchange is great, here's how to read it by Khopesh · · Score: 4, Informative
    There are three ways to read the meat in those experts-exchange links.
    • Click on the Google Cache link and scroll to the bottom. After all the censored answers and a really large navigation bar, you'll see the real answers.
    • Spoof your browser's User Agent to be Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) using any of a plethora of extensions (I use Prefbar).
    • Using the Greasemonkey add-on, install a userscript that does it for you, like Experts-Exchange Answers.
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  2. Re:Heh... by potHead42 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually it seems they check the Referer: HTTP header, so if you follow a link from Google it will show the answers, but if you enter the URL directly they're hidden (just tested this on Chrome, Opera and Firefox).

  3. Re:No, I can't. by Tridus · · Score: 4, Informative

    If your referrer is from Google, they put the answer at the bottom of the page because Google's TOS would blacklist them if they didn't.

    If you're coming at it virtually any other way, they don't put the answer there.

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  4. Re:Heh... by Petron · · Score: 4, Informative

    Instead of clicking the link, click on "Cached" instead. Then you can read the answer.

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  5. Experts Exchange trick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Experts Exchange let google crawlers see the full content to boost their search ranks. Open the cached page in a search and scroll right to the bottom for the answers.

  6. Re:What a stupid implementation by stromthurman · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can manually add sites to block by going to the blocked sites manager:

    http://www.google.com/reviews/t

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  7. Terms and changing meanings by zooblethorpe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Another neat recent addition was the introduction of Recipe View, which adds depth to food preparation searches.

    I wonder what it would make of:

    Bukkake udon: Cold udon served with various toppings liberally sprinkled on top

    - from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udon#Cold

    Well, there was the udon, and other dishes, well before there was ... that other thing.

    "Bukkake" is from butsu, meaning to hit something, and kakeru, to cover something. Together the meaning is a bit like "to cover something with lots of stuff all at once" -- which, alone, is perfectly innocuous, and could easily refer to food toppings or heavy blankets. It's only in certain other contexts that this gets at all off-color.

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