I’ve hit a major flaw with Google Search this week. A significant number of the technical searches that I’m doing are providing results where one particular company is at the top of the list.
This company has the answers I need, but they don’t provide them for free. The top result appears to be an exact match to my question, so I click it, only to find that “it’s them again”.
What I need Google to provide, is the ability for me to list the domains that I wish to exclude from my search results. That way, after learning that a particular domain is of no help, I could specify that their content should never darken my door again.
There is already the ability to do this on a per-search basis by adding -inurl:domainname to my search, but I don’t want to have to do this by hand.
The annoying website, by the way, is called Experts-Exhange.com, and for example here, their entry appears above the one from Sun.
The difference between the two is that Sun provide an authoritative answer to my question, for free. Experts-Exchange on the other hand, just provide enough information to describe the question fully, so it gets found by the search engine; but to read the answer you have to pay, and I’m never going to do that, so I never want to see them again.
Google, please please me.
Hi Rich,
I find that people often post useful responses on Expert’s Exchange in the Comments section of the question page. It’s further down the page, so is usually missed by those who see the “Give us money” link and close the window straight away. I find that nine times out of ten, this yields something useful.
Otherwise, in the meantime, I recommend an extension for Mozilla Firefox called ‘CustomizeGoogle’. This will allow you to filter out results from any domain you like (e.g. *.experts-exchange.*).
Check out: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=743
Great site, by the way – I just stumbled upon it while researching a pre-recorded cold call which said I’d won a holiday in the Bahamas!
Wow, a solution, and a workaround that makes the solution unnecessary. Thanks Rus!
Thanks, this was just what I was looking for to get rid of the expert-exchange results.
Experts-Exchange now obscures all responses, even if scroll down the page. Now if someone would only build a customizegoogle add-in for IE.
Notice that their name can be written ExpertSexChange?