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I've been running into a flood of these scraper sites in my search results, and more than anything I just want to exclude them. I would like to click a link next to the result to exclude that site from future searches; there's no content I'm interested in on that site that shouldn't show up as a hit on the original source.
Providing that feature might solve the problem for two reasons: I don't see the scraper sites so my searches are more to my liking (and google works for me so I come back to it,) and also, google can use a large number of explicit "exclusions" to affect the rankings. They could treat it as feedback, equivalent to users saying "this site is not relevant."
Trouble In the House of Google
Let's look at where stackoverflow.com traffic came from for the year of 2010. When 88.2% of all traffic for your website comes from a single source, criticizing that single source feels … risky. And perhaps a bit churlish, like looking a gift horse in the mouth, or saying something derogato...
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