Ask HN: Is there a search engine that allows user blacklisting of domains?

3 pointsdempedempe4 comments

There are certain websites with a propensity for spewing garbage that matches nearly everything I search for about a particular topic. I try my best to keep a mental blacklist of these sites, but, well, you can imagine how that goes...

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Seems like this would be easy enough to do by just excluding those sites using the search engine's own syntax (it's usually something like "-site.com" or the like).

You could easily create your own OpenSearch search engine. Very little coding is required to do this, and it's supported by most major browsers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch

Wow, providing a pointer to a resource that lets you write your own code to do something gets you modded down nowadays?

Alrighty then!

Thanks for this! I had not heard of OpenSearch.

You can set it up so that Google can do this. It's a bit involved, but a few tutorials exist if you search for them.

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