jtara - 12:14 am on Nov 14, 2006 (gmt 0)

As a consumer, I don't want to see ranking, directory, or comparison sites. My experience with them has been nothing but negative.

Google should offer consumers the ability to permanenty opt-out of seeing these kinds of results.

In the mean time, if you feel the same way, many browser search extensions permit a string to be added to the end of every search you do. This will at least help take out the worst of the trash. When Google sees these on a significant number of searches, perhaps they will wake up.

Here's mine:

-inurl:(dealtime¦nextag¦bizrate¦epinions)

But that only solves half the problem. Unfortunately, this only filters natural results, not ads. And it doesn't solve the problem that Google is pricing local merchants out of the advertising market.

[edited by: tedster at 5:12 pm (utc) on Dec. 28, 2006]
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