Google Lets Users Blacklist FoxNews (and others) From Search Results!

[populistdriven]

Google is giving users the ability to block sites that annoy them from ever showing up again in their search results, via a new link next to search results.

The new links will be visible to English users of Google.com starting Thursday and Friday (IE8+, Chrome 9+, and Firefox 3.5+). The change builds on a recent extension the search giant made for users of its Chrome browsers, and signals that Google is listening to the complaints of users that web results are being polluted by low-value content farms.

The move comes just a week after Google introduced a big change to its core search algorithm that was intended to promote high quality sites. But many tech watchers were disappointed that the change seemed to benefit Demand Media, one of the net’s biggest content factories, while punishing many sites that say they create valuable original and user-generated content.

Google isn’t the first to come up with the idea of letting users blacklist sites. New search upstart Blekko has baked that capability in from the start, and has created a technology to let users limit their searches to select groups of sites. DuckDuckGo goes further and simply doesn’t include a number of content farms in its index.

more... http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/google-offers-blacklist-sites/

I have been waiting for this for years. I have their domains blocked on the router and their cable channels blocked on the DVR but the search results were always an annoyance. The WOOT about this is now I can dig for truth about FoxNews lies without seeing any of their search results!!!!

[Sonoman]

1. Why is it limited to the Brits?

"The new links will be visible to English users of Google.com"

[aquart]

3. English or English-speaking?

[Sonoman]

7. I get it.

I just thought the sentence structure was interesting.

By the way, aquart, I have been around here for a long time (no matter what my profile might read), and I always read anything I see from you.

Sonoman

[populistdriven]

4. English as in Engrish nt

[aquart]

2. You mean I can google King Arthur and avoid Stormfront?

Finally!

[IDemo]

5. That will go well along with the Greasemonkey script I've been using for Google News

Courtesy of a like-minded person with far better scripting abilities than me.
Even if you're a non-programmer, a few lines will give you the hint at what it does:

// @description get rid of idiotic nonsense from FauxNews and WSJ
// @include http://news.google.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function () {

var newsnips = <[br /> "free markets, capitalism! no wait, BAIL US OUT! put your $$$ in the stock market casino!",
"blah blah blah Obama is a Muslim, he wants to murder your granny blah blah blah"
];
var objs = < [br /> { re : /wsj.com/, text : "More Lies From Greed Inc." },
{ re : /foxnews.com/, text : "What a Wingnut Idiot Says!" }
];

var replacements = {
"Fox Business": "Tinfoil Hat Stuff",
"FOXNews": "Nazi Propaganda",
"Fox News": "Teabagging Boys Club",
"Wall Street Journal": "Wall St. Hates America"
};

[Trajan]

6. Yay ....

That fixes one small part of my life ....

[snappyturtle]

8. Wonderful! nt

[Stinky The Clown]

9. I will be blocking Politico

Worse than Fox.

[Matariki]

10. Finally! Goodbye to farking Experts Exchange.

Praise Bob.