I’m sick and tired of fake search results from software.informer.com - every time I try to Google anything technical, the first or second result (and usually at least a few of the others) appears to be a close match to my search, but is merely scripted to appear that way - on following the link, it’s always just a holding page with a load of ad links and no actual content.
Is there any way to omit a whole domain, persistently, in my Google searches?
I think he wants to automatically do that forever for all searches. There isn’t anything in Google’s settings to do so, but it probably wouldn’t be hard to write an add-in to firefox that lets you automatically append strings like that to google searches. There is probably already an add-in to do that, I bet.
Sweet! I’ve been wanting to do the same thing with fixya.com for a long time. That website’s sole purpose seems to be to screw up search results. Thanks.
thanks.
I got the same results on my Mac.
I suspect I just hadn’t paid attention to “software.informer.com” in the past. This is the first time I noticed it.
But the firefox addon is getting added on this morning!
I’ve only noticed it in the last couple of months or so - I think it might be a fairly new site, or else it’s only recently managed to attain the critical mass to warp Google search results.
I installed SurfClarity, and it’s pretty good, however, there is a potential issue - it removes the results after they have been retrieved - so the banner says “results 1 to 10 of 82,000”, but maybe only five of those ten results made it through the filter.
So it removes the unwanted hits, but it doesn’t shuffle the desired ones up to replace them - in fact you could end up with page 1 of the results being entirely empty, with a valid result appearing only on page 2.