<story><title>Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of &apos;blacklisted&apos; URLs</title><url>https://github.com/davidahmed/wiper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>Name and shame: my personal ones are cplusplus.com and w3schools.com.</text></item><item><author>davehcker</author><text>I wrote this because I was so annoyed by irrelevant low-quality search results for my queries on Google. For instance if I&amp;#x27;m looking up for Python xyz topic, 99% of the times I am not interested in some &amp;#x27;low-quality&amp;#x27; content (based on my personal preferences) from website example.com.&lt;p&gt;The plugin maintains a persistent and customizable list of URLs (keywords) that are used as a &amp;#x27;blacklist&amp;#x27; for stripping results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jtvjan</author><text>When you search for a file extension, almost always those useless sites pop up that are just advertisements for a ``driver manager&amp;quot; or ``registry cleaner&amp;quot;. The justsolve wiki[1] is a pretty good resource for file extensions, but it&amp;#x27;s not popular enough yet to rank high in search results.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fileformats.archiveteam.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fileformats.archiveteam.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of &apos;blacklisted&apos; URLs</title><url>https://github.com/davidahmed/wiper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>Name and shame: my personal ones are cplusplus.com and w3schools.com.</text></item><item><author>davehcker</author><text>I wrote this because I was so annoyed by irrelevant low-quality search results for my queries on Google. For instance if I&amp;#x27;m looking up for Python xyz topic, 99% of the times I am not interested in some &amp;#x27;low-quality&amp;#x27; content (based on my personal preferences) from website example.com.&lt;p&gt;The plugin maintains a persistent and customizable list of URLs (keywords) that are used as a &amp;#x27;blacklist&amp;#x27; for stripping results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>Fucking quora!&lt;p&gt;For image search, fucking pinterest!</text></comment>