Prepare yourself with this do-it-yourself spam fighting as Google has introduced some tool that give searchers the ability to eliminate domains from its search results. Google has now its top spam fighter according to Matt Cutts who has been posting frequently in a Hacker News discussion about this Google’s search quality and spam blog post.
A question from Hacker News user “bradly” has been the highlight in the discussion board. The user asks Google if they would consider allowing searchers to remove domains from search results themselves. As a reply, Cutts said that they would definitely discuss this kind of matter which seems to hint that some kind of announcement may be on the way the next days. He added that their policy in search is not yet pre-announce especially if it has not been launched yet. He assured that he will surely among the first to show up and let people know about if certain experiments will be offered along those lines.
One of its examples is the Google’s SearchWiki wherein its feature allows users to do something similar on spam fighting. SeachWiki can be edited and you can remove individual pages from the search results for certain keywords. This tool may have been shut down by Google last March; any results you have removed while it was active are still maintained to this day in your Google account.
The conversation on the said discussion in Hacker News sounds more comprehensive than what SearchWiki offered. Both that Hacker News user’s question and Cutts’ reply suggest that users could make domain blacklists that could be apply across-the-board to any given keyword. That thread also includes a couple other possibly newsworthy items for the users and searchers and Cutts saying about Google working on algorithmic solutions to fight against Amazon Web Services clones and Stack Overflow clones.
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