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Having to search for “xxxxxxx wiki” more and more now. No I don’t want Healthline and Medicinenet links above the Wikipedia entry, thank you Google.

I wish by each search result there was a button that said “banish this domain to oblivion, I never want to see it again.”

You could improve search really fast that way if you still cared about things like that.

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There used to be such feature in the results page. I just went looking for it and I got 'Cached' and 'Similar' when I click in the little drop-down arrow. Nice feature that appears to be removed. How does removing that feature benefited the users?

It used to be an extension (an official one from Google, Personal Blocklist). It was never part of the vanilla search results page itself.

No, it used to be part of the official results before the personal blocklist extension ever existed. Then some features were removed from the search results and then partially reimplemented in that extension.

Personal Blocklist by Google has been forked and reimplemented by a number of people:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

Yes, a ban button has been on my search wish list since Google existed!

I do the same thing when looking for product reviews or useful discussion- generally put "xxxx forum" or "xxxx reddit" etc.

If you know which site you want to search, and its search feature is as decent as wikipedia’s, I suggest adding it as a search keyword. Saves me some time to type e.g. ”wk turtle” in the address bar instead of going through the front page or lazily searching via some third party search engine.

try <foo> !w on DuckDuckGo

Or add "w" keyword for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=... bookmark on Android Firefox and then search with "w searchstring" from its address bar.

It's silly that it's necessary to create separate bookmark for this, though. Native search engines, surprisingly, don't support keywords there.

Why silly? It is in fact a bookmark - just a parametrized one. :)

They do have native search engines with neat option to add them from a site's search field. Why not add keywords too as they did on desktop.

I feel silly adding bookmarks for the things I already have in search engine list.

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