Personalized Search: Add Nuke Site Option

You’ve seen in Google SERPs, how, when you’re logged in, there is a place to promote or remove a particular SERP. It’s the X or the arrow up graphic we talked about a few months back.

What the search engines need to add is the ability to completely remove certain sites from my personalized search results. Right now, when I nuke a SERP with Google’s “Hot or Not” button, it has no effect on future similar searches.

As a user, there are some sites that I just never want to see (for example: twitter, experts-exchange.com, and pdf-search-engine.com). Yes, I understand that as a power user, i can do things like -site:twitter.com; but I don’t want to screw with that for every query.

Plus, it would be helpful for parents. Let’s say we don’t want our kids to see certain sites in the SERPS. Again, I understand there are services like NetNanny, but I don’t even want the site to appear in the SERPs.

The solution is simple and obvious: Google should add a third button in the shape of a mushroom cloud to the SERPs that let’s users Nuke the entire site for personalized search.

PS: I just noticed that Google Chrome is not working with the Javascript elements of my wordpress installation. Sigh.

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3 Responses to “Personalized Search: Add Nuke Site Option”

  1. bitful1123 says:

    Yep, quite a good idea!

    I hope Google will see your post.

  2. Vim82 says:

    I completely agree. Google should have a filter for the search engine? I’m sure Google chrome will update the JavaScript error mentioned above in the next version.

  3. andrefelipe says:

    I’ve created this tutorial for people to learn how to remove sites from search results: How to remove an entire domain from Google results.