Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?
by pketh on Hacker News.
Whenever I’m searching for anything even mildly off the beaten path, it’s not uncommon for the top results to be SEO stuffed spam websites, or maybe even real websites that I can’t access (like paywalls or requiring adblocker exceptions to proceed). Usually pages from the same domains are top-ranked for other related searches too. As a user I’d love to be able to tell my search engine to “Never show me results from this domains” (similar to blocking an account on Twitter) – but as far as I can tell there is no way to do this in either Google or DuckDuckGo search. This seems like such low-hanging fruit to me that I’m wondering if other people have ever wanted this, and if there’s actually a reason not to do it.