# Is there anyway to tell Google not to bring up a site again?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-tell-google-not-to-bring-up-a-site-again/782655
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 20, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-tell-google-not-to-bring-up-a-site-again/782655 "2017-03-20T22:20:13Z")
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### Author: ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-tell-google-not-to-bring-up-a-site-again/782655/1 "2017-03-20T22:20:13Z")

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Some old amateur gardening and houseplant sites mostly linked to pictures that don’t exist anymore. There are other reasons too. Some were always just worthless. Is there anyway to tell Google not to bring up a site again?

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### Author: ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-tell-google-not-to-bring-up-a-site-again/782655/2 "2017-03-20T23:01:34Z")

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If you’re doing a search, you can use site:foo.com to restrict the search to the specific site [foo.com](http://foo.com). So by prefixing that with a minus sign, you can exclude the site from your search. For example

```auto

"cecil adams" -site:straightdope.com

```

finds the name “cecil adams” on all sites except [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com).

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### Author: ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-tell-google-not-to-bring-up-a-site-again/782655/3 "2017-03-21T05:06:25Z")

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There was a Firefox extension for this very purpose . I stopped using it since the little green addition beside each search giving such options was clutter to me. Plus I didn’t use it enough.  
Still, Mozilla appears to be dumping extensions anyway.

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### Author: ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyway-to-tell-google-not-to-bring-up-a-site-again/782655/4 "2017-03-21T13:33:40Z")

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Google has its own “Personal Blocklist” extension, if you use Chrome.