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> It was removed because it was being gamed from the outset. 'Gamed' as in people would block the most ad-infested pages which just so happened to be the ones
by Regnore 3y ago
> It was removed because it was being gamed from the outset.
'Gamed' as in people would block the most ad-infested pages which just so happened to be the ones which made Google the most money?
- dazc 3y agoNo, 'gamed' as in mass blocking one's competitor's results. If you think ads are bad you should take a peep into the world of 'negative seo'. I can assure you that any solution you can think of that will improve web search will be used in the exact opposite way you imagine.
- moneywoes 3y agoWas that feature not akin to the report button
- _Algernon_ 3y agoYou can allow individuals to customize their own search results without having to use that more broadly.
- janalsncm 3y agoI do this now. There are plenty of chrome plugins to block domains from the results.
- flir 3y agoSo Google was using the blocklists as a signal of site quality? Seems the problem's not the blocking itself then, and the whole feature didn't need to be removed, just its use as a metric.