Google unveils new Domain and Site "Blacklist" tool.

[Gerry]

Just when you thought you could not possibly see any more of your parking income drop, Google unleashes a new tool that allows uses to place any domain name, URL, or site on a BlackList that prevents that site/URL from ever showing up in your search results again.

Google Lets Users Blacklist Sites From Search Results

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Google Lets Users Blacklist Sites From Search Results

* By Ryan Singel Email Author
* March 10, 2011 |
* 4:31 pm |
* Categories: Search

Google is giving users the ability to block sites that annoy them from ever showing up again in their search results, via a new link next to search results.

The new links will be visible to English users of Google.com starting Thursday and Friday (IE8+, Chrome 9+, and Firefox 3.5+). The change builds on a recent extension the search giant made for users of its Chrome browsers, and signals that Google is listening to the complaints of users that web results are being polluted by low-value content farms.

The move comes just a week after Google introduced a big change to its core search algorithm that was intended to promote high quality sites. But many tech watchers were disappointed that the change seemed to benefit Demand Media, one of the net’s biggest content factories, while punishing many sites that say they create valuable original and user-generated content.

Google isn’t the first to come up with the idea of letting users blacklist sites. New search upstart Blekko has baked that capability in from the start, and has created a technology to let users limit their searches to select groups of sites. DuckDuckGo goes further and simply doesn’t include a number of content farms in its index.

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Spammers are going to work on how to put their competitors on that list.

and I wonder what is the deal between Diamond Media and Google!

[Gerry]

Here's something worth noting:

Yesterday I saw a huge increase in CTR on one of my sites running Adsense - 23.40% CTR!

Today, that same site is at 14.80% CTR.

Revenue has not changed much which is very disappointing. Perhaps even lower eCPM.

So, it would seem that legitimately optimized sites with relevant content WILL benefit from the change in Google's algorithm to block content farms and now the black list tool, which coincides with the release of the black list tool on Thursday and Friday (today) here in the US.