# Is there a way to (persistently)blacklist whole domains in a Google Search **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 5, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694 "2010-01-05T00:06:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/1 "2010-01-05T00:06:47Z")
I’m sick and tired of fake search results from [software.informer.com](http://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? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/2 "2010-01-05T00:13:01Z")
add “-site:software.informer.com” without the quote marks. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/3 "2010-01-05T00:57:09Z")
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. edit: Ha, I was right: [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12305](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12305) This looks like it does what you want. I may add this as well. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/4 "2010-01-05T01:08:29Z")
Awesome, even better. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/5 "2010-01-05T10:14:31Z")
Cool. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/6 "2010-01-05T10:55:12Z")
Sweet! I’ve been wanting to do the same thing with [fixya.com](http://fixya.com) for a long time. That website’s sole purpose seems to be to screw up search results. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/7 "2010-01-05T11:26:40Z")
This is the first time I hear about [software.informer.com](http://software.informer.com). It has never ever appeared on my Google searches. Maybe you are infected with spyware? Can you give an example search where it appears in the results? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/8 "2010-01-05T11:48:04Z")
> [@Dog80](#): > > This is the first time I hear about [software.informer.com](http://software.informer.com). It has never ever appeared on my Google searches. Maybe you are infected with spyware? Don’t think so - I get the same thing on several different PCs, at home, work and elsewhere. > [@](#): > > Can you give an example search where it appears in the results? I googled for **freeware thunderbird migration** - the second result is from [software.informer.com](http://software.informer.com) > **[Google Search](https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=freeware+thunderbird+migration&meta=&aq=f&oq=)** ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/9 "2010-01-05T13:02:37Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Don’t think so - I get the same thing on several different PCs, at home, work and elsewhere. > I googled for **freeware thunderbird migration** - the second result is from [software.informer.com](http://software.informer.com) > > [Google Search](http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=freeware+thunderbird+migration&meta=&aq=f&oq=) thanks. I got the same results on my Mac. I suspect I just hadn’t paid attention to “[software.informer.com](http://software.informer.com)” in the past. This is the first time I noticed it. But the firefox addon is getting added on this morning! ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/10 "2010-01-05T13:05:10Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > edit: Ha, I was right: [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12305](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12305) This looks like it does what you want. I may add this as well. Excellent - cheers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/11 "2010-01-05T13:06:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-persistently-blacklist-whole-domains-in-a-google-search/523694/12 "2010-01-05T19:07:40Z")
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.