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[enobrev]

Google used to make it possible to filter domains from results. I was sad to see it disappear

[leephillips → enobrev]

You can still do "-site:spam.com".

[enobrev → leephillips]

For sure! Thanks for the reminder. There was a point (as you may know) when the domains were saved into your profile, so you didn't have to add it.

[leephillips → enobrev]

I didn’t know.

[kdot → leephillips]

When they removed the domain blacklist feature search went down hill fast.

https://searchengineland.com/google-brings-back-blocking-sit...

[thesuitonym → leephillips]

This works, but bad actors like pinterest have found a way around that by having a domain on every TLD and ccTLD out there.

[cuspycode → thesuitonym]

I found out by experiment that wildcards work, e.g. -site:pinterest.*