Even the most expert of computer users will occasionally stumble across a useful feature or service that they wondered how they ever managed without.
A case in point being the ability to block results from particular websites from appearing in Google’s search engine results page.
Let’s say that your day to day life involves you seeking out technical support issues for a particular software package. You want results from the vendor’s own support forum to appear but they sometimes get drowned out by the results on a hobbyist site, the advice from which is often misguided or just plain wrong.
Google now offers the ability to exclude up to 500 sites from your search results. You can set this up via http://www.google.co.uk/reviews/t once you’ve signed in with a Google account. You may also notice a “block this site link” if you return to your search engine results page after visiting one of the websites returned.
Though Google’s motives may not be entirely altruistic – the blocked sites data will be used to hone search results in future – this could be another one of those nifty services you never knew you couldn’t live without!
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