{"id":814,"date":"2011-02-26T01:58:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T05:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/?p=814"},"modified":"2012-06-21T02:59:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T06:59:01","slug":"google-brings-in-%e2%80%98new-chrome-extension%e2%80%99-which-block-sites-from-google-web-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/google-brings-in-%e2%80%98new-chrome-extension%e2%80%99-which-block-sites-from-google-web-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Google brings in \u2018New Chrome Extension\u2019 which block sites from Google web search results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Google have been exploring various algorithms to detect &#8216;Content farms&#8217; (low quality content sites).\u00a0 For the same they consider users&#8217; 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 (&#8216;Personal Blocklist extension&#8217;) and start blocking sites that carry low quality content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you block a site with the extension, you won\u2019t see results from that domain again in your Google search results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-878\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NEW-.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NEW-.gif 550w, https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NEW--300x74.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can always revoke a blocked site at the bottom of the search results, so it&#8217;s easy to undo blocks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NEW-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NEW-1.gif 550w, https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NEW-1-300x102.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can also edit your list of blocked sites by clicking on the extension&#8217;s icon in the top right of the Chrome window.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-880\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NEW-21.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NEW-21.gif 550w, https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/NEW-21-300x100.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google have been exploring various algorithms to detect &#8216;Content farms&#8217; (low quality content sites).\u00a0 For the same they consider users&#8217; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[155,142],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engine","tag-google-chrome-2","tag-google-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}