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How to "permanently" remove annoying websites from your google's search result

#productivity #browser #android

Motivation

I dislike annoying websites like pinterest or tiktok. I don't want to create an account just to see some normal pictures or some short videos of baseball. I want those to disappear from my google search result, so I always search like "baseball -tiktok", but I don't want to write "-tiktok" every time I google search, so I checked how to make it default.

After writing this article, I realized that with this approach, it would also filter out news articles that have 'TikTok' in the title. So, instead of just 'TikTok,' it might be better to specify the URL, like using -inurl:tiktok. If this concerns you, give it a try this:




https://www.google.com/search?q=-site:tiktok.*+-site:*.tiktok.*+-site:pinterest.*+-site:*.pinterest.*+%s
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Android

  1. Install kiwi browser from playstore.
  2. Write chrome://settings/ in the kiwi browser's search bar.
  3. Click on the browser configuration icon Image description
  4. You will find Search engine. Tap it. Then tap on the Manage search engines.. Image description
  5. Add a new search engine from Add of Site search. The name and keyword of the new search engine to be added can be anything like noiseless google for the name and @nggl for the keyword. The url for the new search engine is https://www.google.com/search?q=-tiktok+-pinterest+%s and save it. Image description
  6. Make this the default search engine. Image description
  7. Now, when you google something from your chrome browser, your search result filters the specified websites by default. Image description
  8. Please note that you can restore to the old search engine configuration from kiwi browser's Setting page. Image description

PC chrome

  1. Open Chrome browser
  2. Write chrome://settings/ in the chrome browser's search bar.
  3. Look for Search configuration and open it. Click on the Manage search engines.. Image description
  4. Add a new search engine from the lowest of the list. The name and keyword of the new search engine to be added can be anything like noiseless google for the name and @nggl for the keyword. The url for the new search engine is https://www.google.com/search?q=-tiktok+-pinterest+%s and save it. Image description
  5. Make this the default search engine.
  6. Now, when you google something from your browser, your search result filters the specified websites by default.
  7. Please note that you can restore to the old search engine configuration from the browser's Setting page.

References

  1. https://conpath.net/columns/filter-google-search-results-by-default/ Images of PC chrome section are cited from here

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