This is a list of the sites I’ve got blocked on Deep Search 99. I’m too lazy to categorize them – this is just the full list I have dumped in the CSE exclusion section.
In general, these are the reasons I will add a site to the block list:
- Sites owned by large corporations. They can afford to hire people to make them outrank everyone else regardless of the quality of their content. Either that or they just interlink all their sites.
- Government sites, because I have yet to find one that has useful information that deserves to outrank anything else, which they tend to do.
- Sites with some sort of paywall.
- Sites with information that is disrespectful towards children/animals/minorities or any group of people who need more support than what they generally get. Example: Autism Speaks.
- Sites that pop up in the search results too frequently and don’t seem useful enough. Example: YouTube (even though reason #1 is enough to block this anyway). It has its own search engine, use that if you want YouTube videos. Or just regular Google. Don’t get me started on 10min long clickbait rambling videos…
- Sites that you expect to rank #1 for many queries in other popular search engines. Example: Wikipedia. Might as well just use a normal search engine or Wikipedia directly if that’s what you’re looking for.
I do realize the irony of using a Google Custom Search Engine for this. It’s just that I haven’t found any viable alternatives yet.
Feel free to suggest more sites you think I should block (use the comments section). If you don’t like the fact that I blocked some site – just make your own CSE from this list and don’t block that site.
The full list (as of 11 February 2018), in no particular order:
- nih.gov
- healthline.com
- webmd.com
- drugs.com
- iherb.com
- walgreens.com
- mayoclinic.org
- medicinenet.com
- garmin.com
- nhs.uk
- fitbit.com
- medlineplus.gov
- medscape.com
- cdc.gov
- psychologytoday.com
- emedicinehealth.com
- realself.com
- cuteness.com
- denydesigns.com
- ehow.com
- hunker.com
- leaf.tv
- leafgroup.com
- livestrong.com
- saatchiart.com
- sapling.com
- society6.com
- techwalla.com
- theotherartfair.com
- cracked.com
- gamespy.com
- askmen.com
- gamestats.com
- gizmodo.com
- lifehacker.com
- expedia.com
- hotels.com
- tripadvisor.com
- ask.com
- match.com
- office.com
- ebay.com
- netflix.com
- linkedin.com
- businessinsider.com
- makeuseof.com
- google.co.uk
- google.com
- wsj.com
- nytimes.com
- washingtonpost.com
- theglobeandmail.com
- nationalpost.com
- latimes.com
- smh.com.au
- theage.com.au
- haaretz.com
- bostonglobe.com
- theaustralian.com.au
- independent.co.uk
- ft.com
- facebook.com
- twitter.com
- pinterest.com
- amazon.ca
- amazon.co.uk
- rockpapershotgun.com
- tomshardware.com
- valvesoftware.com
- steamcommunity.com
- steampowered.com
- kotaku.com
- vg247.com
- amazon.com
- microsoft.com
- autismspeaks.org
- themighty.com
- faaas.org
- kidshealth.org
- gotoquiz.com
- thetoptens.com
- quora.com
- answers.yahoo.com
- wikipedia.org
- wikihow.com
- forbes.com
- huffingtonpost.com
- medium.com
- buzzfeed.com
- youtube.com
- foodsafety.gov
- ny.gov
- il.us
- fda.gov
- stackexchange.com