2/10/12

Original Poster

Google user

Blocked Search Feature in Google is not working for me

3 Recommended Answers

Hi Everyone,

PC: Windows XP SP3, Running IE V8

I am logged into gmail.

I have Language Set to English

I have location set to US

The search results are set to display on the same page

I have 3 sites listed in the Blocked Sites Lists under my Gmail account

However when I do a search, the sites that I have blocked still keep showing up in the search results?

How can I fix this. Thanks

Community content may not be verified or up-to-date. Learn more.

Recommended Answers (3)

2/13/13

Thomas P. - Top Contributor

Acc. to Official Google Documentation, then:

Blocked Sites is discontinued
The Blocked Sites feature is no longer available. To block particular sites from your search results, we recommend the Personal Blocklist Chrome extension from Google. You may also download your existing blocked sites list as a text file.

2/1/13

Jessica S.

Hi everyone,

We've been getting a lot of questions about this feature and we know that it's been awhile since we've updated this thread. We definitely hear from all of you that it's broken and that you like it. That being said, we don't have firm plans on it, so there's nothing really concrete to share about where it's going.

But if you want to block sites, we'd recommend this Chrome extension from Google: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef?hl=en. It should provide a lot of what people are looking for (though it doesn't sync across all computers and only works on Chrome). People seem to like it -- it has over 176K users.

Thanks,

Jessica

6/18/12

Jessica S.

Hi everyone,

We're aware that this is an issue and I'll post an update as soon as I have one. In the meantime, thanks for your patience.

Best,

Jessica

Were these answers helpful?

How can we improve them?

All Replies (75)

2/10/12

Dingus

Hi XC, are you signed into the same Google Account that you've used to block sites? If you haven't blocked entire domains, only pages from a site, you might see if blocking the landing page url for the domain is helpful.

2/10/12

Original Poster

Google user

Hi:

Thanks for your response.

I have only one google account.

I attempted to block a page; and the the entire site; but neither seem to work. For example, I am wishing to block: http://richmondregister.com and not wanting to see any pages from that site.

I am logged into my gmail account; and see this in the Blocked sites. But when I do a search; I still see results from this site.

Thanks

3/8/12

Schnee

Same thing Here, nothing is blocked.

6/16/12

neojp

me too. the input box turn grey

6/16/12

Dingus

You people can see if using a different browser results in success if you haven't cleared cache and cookies in the ones that you currently use, closed them, and restarted the computer to see if you get similar results.

Clearing cache and cookies

Suppo rted browsers

69 MORE

4/23/13

Guy Rice

That's disappointing... notice to both Google and Bing: you'll get all my future search traffic if you (re)implement this feature.

This question is locked and replying has been disabled. Still have questions? Ask the Help Community.

Badges

Some community members might have badges that indicate their identity or level of participation in a community.

Google Employee — Google product team members and community managers

Community Specialist — Google partners who help ensure the quality of community content

Platinum Product Expert — Community members with advanced product knowledge who help other Google users and Product Experts

Gold Product Expert — Community members with in-depth product knowledge who help other Google users by answering questions

Silver Product Expert — Community members with intermediate product knowledge who help other Google users by answering questions

Product Expert Alumni — Former Product Experts who are no longer members of the program

Community content may not be verified or up-to-date. Learn more.

Levels

Member levels indicate a user's level of participation in a forum. The greater the participation, the higher the level. Everyone starts at level 1 and can rise to level 10. These activities can increase your level in a forum:

Post an answer.
Having your answer selected as the best answer.
Having your post rated as helpful.
Vote up a post.
Correctly mark a topic or post as abuse.

Having a post marked and removed as abuse will slow a user's advance in levels.

View profile in forum?

To view this member's profile, you need to leave the current Help page.

Reply in forum?

This comment originated in the Google Product Forum. To reply, you need to leave the current Help page.

Blocked Search Feature in Google is not working for me

Blocked Sites is discontinued

Badges

Levels

View profile in forum?

Report abuse in forum?

Reply in forum?