Blocking Google Search Results
I've wanted this feature for ages - the ability to tell Google not to include results from certain websites. And now it's here:
I first noticed it when doing the following:
- Searched for a solution to some obscure (often Notes-related) issue.
- Accidentally hit a result for a site that requires registration and/or payment.
- Immediately hit the back button.
If now that, if you press the back button quickly enough, Google will show a "block this site" link under the result you clicked on.
Or you can try and manually add sites at this page (?) if you're logged in to Google.
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I've always used the Google cached version of the experts-exchange to read the entries - you just need to scroll down a bit :o)
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Interesting. Never knew of that trick. Might go and check it out. Oh, hang on, I can't, I blocked them...
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Hmm. I just tried while logged out of Google and there's no "cached" option next to any Experts Exchange results. There is for all other sites. Maybe they're in cahouts with Google now and had them prevent this?
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Yes I can always see expert exchange - but that also reassures me that I don't need to check it either as it is usually rubbish anyway - StackOverflow is the way to go ! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/xpages
thanks for the exclusion tip Jake :)
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I use a Firefox "User Agent Switcher" extension and the Chrome "User-Agent Switcher for Chrome" extension and set the user agent to "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)". This allows me to see the site exactly as Google does. This is very handy for Experts-Exchange and many other sites.
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In addition to ExpertSexChange it's also worth blocking content scraping sites like osdir.com, efreedom.com and planetlotus.org whose results often rank higher than those containing the original content.
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Been meaning to write to planetlotus.org to get my site removed. Never been sure how I feel about them having my content up there and indexed by Google et al. I know I don't like it though.
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Great tip Jake - experts exchange always does my head in when it is constantly poping up in search results and like you, I never knew you could block sites from the results.
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