Remove Experts Exchange from Google Search Results
About once I week I do a google search, usually regarding the vagueries of C++ destructors or something, that produces a raft of hits from experts-exhange.com and the top of the results. Since experts-exchange.com hooking you with questions, then hitting you up for cash before it actually gives you the information you're looking for, these bogus results are a distraction from the task at hand.
Usually I just hold my nose and scroll by these results, but then a tweet reminded me of the Three Virtues. Why the hell isn't the computer doing this work for me?
So after teaching myself a little javascript and a little xpath (again), I rolled a greasemonkey user script to remove these pesky obstacles to real information.
The script can be found here. You will need to install greasemonkey (and firefox) before you can use it.
Todo:
- UI for adding domains to remove from the searches.
- Support other search engines.
Comments: 5
Reader Comments
Tue Sep 1 13:06:25 2009, by Blaine:
And a disturbing mental switch to permanently scar you, remove the hyphen and you get ExpertSexChange.
Wed Sep 2 16:26:05 2009, by Michael:
If you're going to do it, best to get it done by an expert, I reckon...
Mon Dec 21 23:55:19 2009, by Andrew:
A few years a go I had the chance to get a free account, I just had to fill out the site's survey to let them know what I was interested in and what areas I might be able to provide help for. I have never had to pay a cent to the site and it has served me well on a number of occasions.
Tue Dec 22 11:41:39 2009, by michael:
I'm glad Experts Exchange has been beneficial for you. If found it to be less useful, so I wrote this userscript.
I agree it's probably not for you...
Sun Aug 30 10:41:37 2009, by Michael: