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Can I stop certain sites appearing when I use search?

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  • 20-12-2017 7:16pm
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    Kewreeuss
    Registered Users Posts: 744 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    just now I typed in search parameters and 7 of the 9 sites that appeared on the first page were all Pinterest.
    I Don't have an account and I don't want one, so I don't want to see it appearing.
    is there somewhere on my browser, Safari, where I can tell it not to show me Pinterest when I search?
    Thank you


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    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,190 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    You can exclude any term from a web search by using the minus sign before the word, for example compare: cool wool patterns to cool wool patterns -pinterest

    It might be a bit tedious to do that for every search, so check out Safari extensions to see if there's one that'd do it automatically for you. There's a few Chrome extensions that do that, but I'm not sure what's available on Safari.


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    Kewreeuss
    Registered Users Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Kewreeuss


    Brilliant, thank you.
    it works with no space between the hyphen and Pinterest.


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    zbluebirdz
    Registered Users Posts: 270 ✭✭zbluebirdz


    Quoting from Google:
    1. To exclude sites from your search engine
    2. On the Custom Search home page, click the search engine you want.
    3. Click Setup, and then click the Basics tab.
    4. In the Sites to search section, click Advanced.
    5. In the Sites to exclude section, click Add, and then do one of the following: ...
      1. To exclude a single URL, type the URL and specify the options you want.
      2. To exclude multiple URLs, click Exclude sites in bulk and then type or paste the URLs you want to exclude.
    6. Click Save.

    Link: https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/2631038?hl=en


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