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Is there a way to reduce the number of AI generated websites that appear in search results? (pawb.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I keep trying to find things like “making waffles from sour dough discard” and all the sites are the same: long meandering paragraphs full of links to other things on the site with dubious instructions.

Considering at this point I can pretty much identify the type of site by looking at it; are there good extensions or search engines which might remove them from search results?

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[–] 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Try uBlacklist, with these blocklists:

# AI Spam
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/main/list_uBlacklist.txt
# Copycat Sites
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter/main/dist/other_format/uBlacklist/global.txt
# SEO Spam & Junk
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NotaInutilis/Super-SEO-Spam-Suppressor/main/ublacklist.txt
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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Thanks for this! Been looking for something like it. I guess it just blocks the sites though, and doesn't block them appearing in search results?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So uBlacklist actually removes sites specified in your subscribed rulesets from your search results.

    I found it helped out a lot on programming or tech support searches, as there's so many content mirrors and SEO spam sites for that domain.

    I also found that using search shortcuts has helped me reduce the need for the middle-man in a surprising amount of my searches. (e.g., “@w” for Wikipedia, “@g” for the Gentoo Wiki, “@git” for GitHub, “@p” for ProtonD, “@y” for YouTube, “@s” for Stack Overflow, et cetera)

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