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.