Is there a way to block certain websites from showing up in search results?

Firefox@lemmy.ml – 45 points – 9 months ago

Hi all, sorry if this is a noob question but I use Firefox on Android and I want to know if there is a way to block certain websites from showing up in search results when searching for something.

For example, if I search for something, I don't want the search engine to show a few reddit threads or some random news site with clickbait articles or in general which don't make any sense? I would like to completely block such sites from showing up in my search results and in a way tidy up my search.

Perhaps Kagi would work for you? https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalized-results.html

Thank you, I'll check it out.

Second vote for Kagi. I've read so many good stories about it here, so gave it a try. First time didn't really like it, but gave it a second try, and now am paying user. Not for everyone, the Mrs doesn't like it.

Pinterest is the number one filtered site on Kagi!

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You can generally add "-" before a domainname for search engines to prevent content from that domain showing up.

So for reddit, you'd search "weather -reddit.com". It should work. This is short and generally works but If it still shows up "weather -site:reddit.com".

you can also add multiple domains like "-reddit.com -stackoverflowclone.com -seojacked.com"

You can also do this by default using custom search engine with a search string that already contains the domains you don't want.

For ddg:

https://start.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s+-reddit.com

Thank you for your answer, I am aware about adding "-" before the domain name, I am sorry should have mentioned it in my post 😔. But it does not seem feasible to do that everytime for multiple sites so I'm more interested in setting up a default list of websites I can block.