Removing certain sites from search engines?

[Tony Ramirez]

I know you can with Google Advance Search, but I still want to remove Reddit and Quora from all searches every time without having to always do a custom search. I am tired of getting what the image shows. Of course, I have an extension installed because of sites like that.
https://i.ibb.co/bJxWQby/Clean-Shot-2024-05-04-at-01-50-46-2x.png

 

[AuAL]

Add “-site:whateversiteordomainyoudon’twant” to your search string.

 

[maycontainthunder]

This is where the minus key comes in handy. Type your search then put -reddit -quora on the end. Any results involving these should now be gone.

 

[Tony Ramirez]

Man it's not just Reddit or quota it's rampant on other blog sites too mainly on the comments. This is the number one reason why I can't ever own a iPhone and literally threw my iPod touch and iPad that my father won from work in the closet and used a really slow Fire tablet until I was able to save up for a OnePlus Pad which then I swapped for a xiaomi Pad that my father bought because it was smaller.

I don't care if my friends can't FaceTime me they can use WhatsApp or use nothing except then plan old text me. I refuse to ever get an iPhone ever because of this.

 

[Lemon Zing]

You can request that Google doesn't show you some links per your request, as I have seen it before.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9689846?hl=en

 

[FilterFreq]

Since most of those sites are owned by Google (as they purportedly purchase loads of these "top 10"-style blog sites and redirect them to their own interests), you could always try something like Bing for a wider net.

Honestly though, chatbots have almost become the Google search 2.0., especially if you want to avoid having to go to too many additional websites to find information. It sounds crazy until it doesn't.

Personally, searching Google itself is so lackluster that I intentionally use the site:reddit.com modifier just so I can get rid of the covert advertising campaigns and clickbait and find some humans (and a few bots, let's not pretend like everything is perfect) potentially talking about the information I'm seeking. Avoiding Reddit in today's world seems like one of the more interesting ways to search, but to each their own

 

[Tony Ramirez]

Found ublacklist works well. Better in desktop than mobile.