I really wish there was a way to exclude sites from search results in Google preferences. The site that's been royally pissing me off lately is codeweblog (not gonna post a link here), which (as far as I can tell) is just a site that has indexed a boatload of tech articles and sites and has created "pages" for just about every combination of keywords found on those sites. Let's say, for example, that I'm searching for a scheduling library in Android, and I happen to know that quartz is the most popular scheduler for java. Search for "android quartz classes" in google, and the first hit is...yeah, those guys.
These codeweblog guys aren't the first ones to have this idea, but they've certainly refined it nicely; furthermore, they could claim that their site isn't just a search honeypot (which it is!), and is providing a useful indexing service to the tech community (which it isn't). They would be lying, but the site looks juuust enough like something useful to be in the gray area.
Anyway, why can't I just decide that I never want to see anything from that site? The above situation is only one of many that I can think of off the top of my head why I might want to do this. Sure, I can add in "-site:xxxx" to all my Google searches, but...c'mon.
Anybody see any reason why this is not a good idea?
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+1000
I 100% agree with you.
I agree with you. I hope google does something about them.
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