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I don't often recommend sites but I'm going to try Surf Canyon Content Farm Results Removal - I've been looking for a way to suppress various sites from google searches, I'm sick of having register-for-answers sites like "expert-exchange" to wade past. I have hopes this place does what it claims.

Can you explain for the uninitiated what it's all about.

Assume you want to be able to search on Google without ever seeing another link to Wikipedia come up in the results. Surf Canyon's Firefox add-on will let you say so. Every Google search afterward will have no Wikipedia links.

In my case I quite like Wikipedia links but I'm sick of quite a few other places. Being able to strip them out of all Google searches is very useful.

Ah yes, of course it is, just another lazy reader here, actually looking at the link tells me that, I had not realised it was an Browser extension before I asked.

I'm delighted to say it's got rid of bloody scribd.com for me as well. Hallelujah.

So it's just a fancy name for a porn filter?

SnoozeAgain;1355806 wrote: So it's just a fancy name for a porn filter?


Scarcely. A porn filter stops a webpage from appearing on your screen if you click a link to it. This Firefox add-on prevents a webpage from appearing on a google search. I don't see they have a great deal in common.



eta: unless you mean Google SafeSearch Filtering?

The add-on lets you filter out unwanted material on any topic by domain name, it's very specific. SafeSearch is a scatter-gun. When I'm protecting a machine from porn I tend to use K9, again because it can be fine-tuned. They're all aimed at filling different needs. I'm using it to fine-tune searches on programming syntax and example code, for which there's a whole stack of pay sites trying to lure the unwary by catching their search terms.

I was being facetious, implying that you look at a lot of porn. Thank you for the explanation though.

SnoozeAgain;1355806 wrote: So it's just a fancy name for a porn filter?


What, in the sense that it filters out the bad porn and leaves you with the good stuff ?

SnoozeAgain;1355813 wrote: I was being facetious, implying that you look at a lot of porn. Thank you for the explanation though.


It looked rather more as though you were implying I look at very little porn and sought a way to eliminate the unavoidable dribbles.

A sentence which could, on reflection, have been more tastefully expressed.

I am curious how they make their money.