[ryandrake]

If there was a way to simply exclude from searches: shopping, news, images, videos, and “listicles”, I think that would get us most of the way.

Especially shopping. The endless stores are the worst part of search results. If I search for anything that remotely looks like a product, the results are just choked with store after store trying to sell me the thing. Awful.

[type0]

If you do your own search engine like that, implementing rules that block affiliated commerce blogs from appearing would help alot.