Google search results to hide

On Google.com in English as a first step, it becomes possible to block areas in the display of search engine results.

Mainly to fight against the farms of content, Google has recently updated its algorithm in order to facilitate the classification results of its engine sites as high quality.


This update made ​​on Google.com however resulted in few false notes in his debut with the decommissioning of sites like the Cult of Mac blog whose traffic then fell sharply. To his publisher, the blog has suffered because its content is often taken up by other sites and the Google algorithm would tangled brushes. But the blog has finally found its usual ranking in Google results.


Today, Google announced to allow the user to "hide sites " does not want to appear in its search results. The functionality is being deployed on Google.com in English (with Chrome 9, IE8, Fx 3.5) and finally resumes the principle of the extension to blocklists Personal Google Chrome, but no extension to install.

Google evokes a more personalized search and it will be recalled that initiatives in this area already exist. In practice, a blocking option appears at the bottom of a result, along with "Cached" and "Similar pages". By clicking on the link, the user can block a domain so that it no longer appears in its results. The maneuver obviously requires to be connected to their Google Account to remember preferences, and possibly return it. Up to 500 sites may be blocked.


As with Personal blocklist, Google does not use the data returned in order to operate as a sort signal. Nevertheless, the idea is not ruled out for later.