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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...

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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

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.

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

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.

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.

!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.

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.

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

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

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

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