Comments on: Firefox

By: Turtleknee

Turtleknee — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:43:56 +0000

It seems that Google now allows you to do this directly in their serach engine if you have a Google account. Sign into Google, and go to search settings, you can block unwanted results by making a list of URLs to block. This is a way to block entire websites regardless of browser and you don’t need a addon. Also, if enough people block them, this will affect their Google ranking of search results for these sites.

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:29:59 +0000

Very good use of tools. I am glad to see that I’m not the only one who has to remember to add “-burleson” to all search criteria. That man has an unbelievable number of domains.

Very ironic comment 19. – Till. You certainly made me chuckle.

By: Till

Till — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:17:15 +0000

Jonathan, thank you so much for the URL. I was getting tired of always getting some well-know websites in the top 10 hits whenever I searched for anything related to Oracle. That became a real nuisance. Ironically, this is what Burleson says in his blog (verbatim):

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Time to ban Wikipedia

The web is one of the world’s best search tools, but the clutter from uncredible sources ruining the experience. They estimate that there will be over 500 million blogs in the next few years, most of them in Nigeria, and the search engines must develop a way to filter-out the crap.

By: lascoltodelvenerdi

lascoltodelvenerdi — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:39:36 +0000

I know this is a bit off-topic: but today is Firefox 3 download day!

Check it out! ^_^

By: Experiments with Google Custom Search engine « Tanel Poder’s blog: Core IT for geeks and pros

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:27:16 +0000

[...] Google has a thing called Custom Search Engine, which allows you define custom search engine rules, sites to include, exclude etc. Therefore you can demote or completely exclude some unwanted sites from your search results. Alberto Dell’Era just commented on this on Jonathan Lewis’es blog entry about Firefox. [...]

By: tanelp

tanelp — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:11:03 +0000

Alberto, there’s an issue with CSE. If you sign up for the *free* Custom Search Engine service, Google will show adWord based advertising with search results and this may still lead you to some crap sites. On the other hand if someone clicks on those links in your CSE, you make money.

Few weeks ago I wrote a custom search engine called “Quality Oracle Search” for myself and noticed the advertising problem there. I’m not gonna spam Jonathan’s blog with a link to my engine, but I will post it on my site ;)

By: Alberto Dell'Era

Alberto Dell'Era — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:03:34 +0000

Another option is Google’s Custom Search Engine:

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

not only you can filter out low-quality web sites, but you can also give more relevance to high-quality sites as well.

And then you can use it in any browser from any location, and possibly even make your Custom Google Search available to others.

By: Anurag

Anurag — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:50:31 +0000

@13: I believe the answers only appear if you have an account on experts-exchange and you’re logged in.

By: Milo

Milo — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:11:33 +0000

Re: experts-exchange.com
Am I the only one who is just able to scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the answers? Sure, you have to scroll a ways, but it’s all there. (IE7, and I’m positive it’s the same in Opera)

By: Mark Brady

Mark Brady — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:15:29 +0000

As far as experts-exchange.com goes, there’s another firefox addin that will get you in there. How do you think the results from the show up in google if you need an account to read the answers? It allows the google spiders to crawl the site, but not IE, Mozilla etc. SO you can make your firefox tell the site it is a google spider.

Anywho, ymmv

mark brady