How do I get Google to not send me links to the SDMB?

Factual Questions
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Or the place I get clothes, or the site I went to a few months ago. I know where they are. I need Google to send me someplace fresh, not to the SDMB thread I have open in another tab.

FWIW, I use Chrome as my browser.

2

How is google supposed to know where you’ve been?

3

It talks to my browser? Now I feel violated!

4

The Verbatim option should remove “personalization” in the form of prioritizing sites you’ve visited before (I also find it useful for those times you don’t want Google to “correct” your spelling but want it to, you know, search for what you actually typed…)

5

To search only on xyz.com, you can specify


site:xyz.com

at the end of your search. To specify that you want to avoid xyz.com, you can specify


-site:xyz.com

Try this search string:


ask about the constitution of canada

and you should end up with this recent thread on the SDMB . Now try:


ask about the constitution of canada -site:straightdope.com

and you shouldn’t get anything from the Straight Dope site.

6

If you have a Google account sign in, go to advanced search (at the bottom of a search result page), choose customize your search settings (bottom of page) and go to blocking unwanted results. At block unwanted sites you can list up to 500 you don’t want in results.

7

I know you guys are trying to help, and I appreciate it, but turning off Google fixing my spelling, adding a bunch of characters to every search, and blocking every result from sites I actually use are not the solution. This is a recent development–the past few months–and it’s annoying to have to scroll through links I have open to get to new stuff about that topic.

8

Are you talking about Search History Personalization?

Try this.

If that doesn’t work, tell us:

  1. Does it happen if you log out of Google?
  2. Does it happen if you log out of Google and try a different browser?
9

Try duckduckgo.com

10

Wait, so you want to avoid SDMB links, but without shutting out the SDMB from results? I’m not sure what exactly the problem you’re having is.

11

Try https://www.startpage.com

Startpage and Duckduckgo are the only search engines I use these days.

12

Seems to work so far. Thanks!