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Seek & Hide ? Google Search Introduces Site Blocking

By Simon Fodden

We’ve all searched Google’s index only to find some pesky or creepy site masquerading as the answer to our query. Often it’s one of those curating-aggregating-wikiplagiarizing pages that add nothing to what others have already done and that often mangle things in the process. Now Google is giving us a way to block these sites from future search results. If you’re using Chrome 9+, IE8+ or Firefox 3.5+, you’ll start seeing on Google.com (but not Google.ca?) a new option next to “cached” below a search result: “Block all xyz.com results“. A click on this will prevent that page from appearing again for you.

This is rolling out over the next few days, and there are plans to expand it to languages other than English, and to all browsers.

There are double checks to make sure you do want to block a site. And there are ways of managing your blocked sites, in case you change your mind. Read all about it on the Official Google Blog.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on March 10, 2011 (boomark / email).