On: Google may rank sites for queries that don't appea...

[IpV8]

I installed a browser extension that adds a blocklist to google's search results. So every time I visit a '10 wierd hacks to...' type of page I block the entire domain from ever showing up in my results again. It take a while to filter them all out, but it drastically increased my search experience. Anyways I use duck duck go nowadays so now my plugin is irrelevant...

[stefanfisk → IpV8]

Which extension are you using? Personal Blocklist broke for me a while back, and now my days are filled with scrolling past w3schools.com to get to developer.mozilla.org

[dhimes → stefanfisk]

A duck duck go search of something like

<what I'm looking up> javascript mdn

give me developer.mozilla.org at the top every time. It's somehow better than site:developer.mozilla.org for some weird reason.

[frosted-flakes → dhimes]

Just put !mdn in your DDG search and it will take you right to MDN. Same with !g for Google, !w for Wikipedia, etc.

[Nition → frosted-flakes]

In Firefox, right-click the search box at developer.mozilla.org and select "Add a Keyword for this search". Put a keyword, something like m.

Then you don't even need a search engine. Just type

  m your search term here

in the URL bar to search the site directly.

[dhimes → Nition]

Wow! That's wicked cool- thanks for the tip!

EDIT: I'll add for others that this keyword is stored as a bookmark, so you can find it in your bookmarks and edit/delete/etc.

[dhimes → frosted-flakes]

!mdn uses mdn's search and returns their results, but I actually prefer ddg's. And using only mdn has the side-benefit of including relevant SO results (and others) lower on the front page sometimes.

[whalabi → stefanfisk]

Anecdotally, so many of us do exactly that scroll.

It must be millions of us, but apparently not enough for Google to decide MDN > w3schools.

Tyranny of the majority I guess.

[fps_doug → IpV8]

Same here. There's still times where a !g actually improves the results but usually duckduckgo's results are fine.

[jpindar → IpV8]

Google used to have that function. But it was very useful, so of course they removed it.

[snaky → IpV8]

I wish there were a way to exchange that block lists between the users of this extension.