Google just released their new Chrome Extension which makes it possible to hide results from certain websites in your result pages. Now one might think: “Awesome” and many do, but basically the Extension is nothing too exciting – basically it loads the results, stupid content farm content1 and all and then iterates over them and removes the matched results. Something that a good JavaScript developer might have done with Greasemonkey.
I was hoping – and I guess many people understand it that way – that the filtering moves to the server-side. The way it is now, some result pages might be completely blank, if all results are from blocked domains.
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