Google brings in ‘New Chrome Extension’ which block sites from Google web search results

Google have been exploring various algorithms to detect ‘Content farms’ (low quality content sites).  For the same they consider users’ feedback as one of the signals and introduces experimental Chrome extension as a privilege for the users to block sites from their web search results. If installed, the extension will send the blocked site information to Google and Google will conduct a study to consider that as a potential ranking signal for their search results. You could download the extension (‘Personal Blocklist extension’) and start blocking sites that carry low quality content.

When you block a site with the extension, you won’t see results from that domain again in your Google search results.

You can always revoke a blocked site at the bottom of the search results, so it’s easy to undo blocks:

You can also edit your list of blocked sites by clicking on the extension’s icon in the top right of the Chrome window.

Tags: Google Chrome, Google search

Extensions in Google Chrome :

Firefox has long been greater to Google Chrome,for most part because of Firefox add-ons. Now since the Google Chrome Extensions are available here at https://chrome.google.com/extensions, many people might prefer to switch over to Google.

Although there are just around 500 Google extensions, in comparison to thousands of add-ons for Firefox, several best and most constructive Firefox add-ons are already available as Google extensions, or their capabilities are duplicated by a Chrome extension.

For those interested mainly in speed, the additions of extensions to Chrome are reason enough to make the change from Firefox. For many the ultimate turning point would be extensions available for Chrome, while many are sure to stick to Firefox till they find each and every of their extensions available for Chrome.