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I've thought about this before, but it would be far to easily manipulated by bad actors - for example, one person says something that triggers the SJW/alt right/gamer/whatever crowd, then a million people downvote her website and her business is destroyed. It wouldn't work without a huge amount of moderation.

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If the voting was just user-specific, that would be fantastic. Because I include a gobbledygook search term to exclude all Pinterest results, Google requires me to perform captchas very frequently, which isn't ideal either.

Try this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/

As I said, it's a matter of personalization and wouldn't be visible to others.

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