[EscargotCult]

> I've thought about this a lot over the past few years, and I've come to the slightly sad conclusion that Google isn't to blame.

I don't know about that, at least in the realm of programming-related searches. It's ridiculously frustrating when I'm searching for a standard library function and the top 3 results are geeksforgeeks, w3schools, and tutorialspoint, while the canonical documentation for the language is only 4th or 5th in the results.

[impalallama]

The fact that MDN Docs are never the first results when searching basic for most basic web stuff is very disappointing.

[vladf]

Funny, I was just complaining about the exact same phenomenon (complaining with a fix!) a few days ago: https://twitter.com/FeinbergVlad/status/1475148590423023619

[roganartu]

I’ve been doing this for a while, and it’s a neat trick. I noticed the same uptick in stackoverflow clones recently as some other commenters here have, and quickly blocked them too via this method.

It’s worth pointing out, however, that the blocking happens client-side, and that these spam results often end up taking up multiple results slots. This means that sometimes you will get an empty or close-to-empty Google results page.

Ideally, I’d like to be able to configure Google itself to never return me results from particular domains instead.