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.

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:32

Comments: 5

Three Things That Caught My Attention

  • The New Economy via slashdot

    Marvelous. What am I going to do when the system protecting this site from link spam comes under the tender mercies of an army data entry experts getting paid near-slave wages?

    Kids, once the intertubes was a cooperative effort; it was fun, pleasant, and useful. I predict a future with many distributed IP bulletin board systems—essentially miniature, invitation-only internets. They will run below the real internet, at a relatively low bandwidth, exchanging data with trusted peers. They will be inhabited by those of us who remember 1992 and before, as well as enlightened, newer netizens. Bad behavior will be dealt with swiftly and decisively. There will be less data, but more content. (Save your 56K modems; read up on uucp.)

    Alternatively, look for cryptographically isolated virtual networks piggybacking on the global IP infrastructure.

  • In better news: Spammer Loses Felony Appeal

    See above. And send his cellmate a supply of v1agr4 and c|al15.

  • Dog Poop on the Bridge

    Imagine my surprise when I suddenly had swerve across the double-yellow in the cage that encloses the 27th & Hwy 2 overpass. Fortunately, nothing was coming the other way. To whoever didn't clean up after: kudos, really.

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:19

Comments: 1