{"id":6571,"date":"2011-03-22T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T23:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=6571"},"modified":"2011-03-22T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T23:23:16","slug":"moving-from-google-noise-reduction-to-google-hit-hider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2011\/03\/22\/moving-from-google-noise-reduction-to-google-hit-hider\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving from Google Noise Reduction to Google Hit Hider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 4 final is out now.  Sadly it breaks the Greasemonkey script Google Noise Reduction, which was an excellent per-domain results blocker for Google Search.  <\/p>\n<p>However, the new and powerful <a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/95205\">Google Hit Hider<\/a> does work very well, and is very similar.  It&#8217;s obviously learned a lot from earlier software like Blocksite, Surfclarity, and Noise Reduction (all of which no longer work with FF4 \/ the latest Google) and there are some nice refinements.  Not the least of which is very easy import\/export as simple plain-text lists of URLs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fairly simple process to get your hand-crafted Noise Reduction blocklist out of Firefox and into Google Hit Hider&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. In Firefox\u2019s address bar, type: <strong>about:config<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Scroll down to <strong>greasemonkey.scriptvals.http:\/\/exego.net\/\/Google Noise Reduction.blacklist<\/strong>  You&#8217;ll see&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>({\u2018britannia.com\u2019:true, \u2018oxfordjournals.org\u2019:true, \u2018tandf.co.uk\u2019:true, \u2018ingentaconnect.com\u2019:true, \u2018sagepub.com\u2019:true, \u2018myspace.com\u2019:true, \u2018experts-exchange.com\u2019:true})<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>3. Double click on the line of banned URLs you\u2019ll find there, and copy them to Notepad.<\/p>\n<p>4. Now just top-and-tail the list, then search and replace until you have a clean list, but leave each URL separated by a single comma.  Save the list as a .csv (comma separated value) file, then open that with MS Office&#8217;s Excel (or whatever the free Open Office equivalent is).  The list should load up with one URL per cell.  <\/p>\n<p>5. Now just copy and paste the resulting cleaned list into: Manage Hiding \/ List Util \/ &#8216;Perma-ban list&#8217; in Google Hit Hider.<\/p>\n<p>The advantage of this over the now-native Google blocking is that: i) it lets you break the 500 URL limit; ii) you can block domains en-masse rather than one at a time; and iii) it lets you easily import\/export the blocklist, in order to share with colleagues etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 4 final is out now. Sadly it breaks the Greasemonkey script Google Noise Reduction, which was an excellent per-domain &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2011\/03\/22\/moving-from-google-noise-reduction-to-google-hit-hider\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurn-tips-and-tricks","category-jurns-google-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}