Google to Let Users Block Sites Based on Domain Names

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Google to Let Users Block Sites Based on Domain Names

By CircleID Reporter
March 11, 2011, 7:23 pm PST Views: 9,992 Add Comment

In pursuit of its efforts to improve Google search results, the company on Thursday announced the release of a new feature that enables users to block specific search results based on domain names.

In a blog post, the company says: “You’ve probably had the experience where you’ve clicked a result and it wasn’t quite what you were looking for. Many times you’ll head right back to Google. Perhaps the result just wasn’t quite right, but sometimes you may dislike the site in general, whether it’s offensive, pornographic or of generally low quality. For times like these, you’ll start seeing a new option to block particular domains from your future search results. Now when you click a result and then return to Google, you’ll find a new link next to ‘Cached’ that reads ‘Block all example.com results.’”

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