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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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[–] fetchies@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (2 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)

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Oh, cool. Thank you!

[–] DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] fetchies@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Yes it supports DDG and every major search engine (see: GitHub). You might have to manually give it permission first (like for specific SearXng instances), after which it'll work.

If you meant can you add DDG as a search shortcut, also yes.