I selected single and multiple goggles in concert to block Amazon search returns but all failed. Additionally, using negative operators as per brave instructions yielded even more Amazon hits and ads.
Is there a robust solution to cleaning out the junk hits from Amazon?
Goggles or Rerank?
If Goggles, which did you choose and did you pay attention to their filters? Well, more specifically I’m talking about Helpful Info & FAQ for Brave Users - #55 by Saoiray
And if you use Rerank that is only a temporary thing (essentially lasting until cookies are cleared) and requires you to attempt your search again so that the rules can apply to the results. But keep in mind that there can be lots of domains. For example, we have the below. So originally blocked just amazon.com but then Search pulled other related, which would be amazon.jobs, amazon.ca, or even primevideo.com.
Key thing is it can be a lot of editing. And back to my prior point, if you’re using existing Goggles or creating your own you’ll need to check if they are discarding or only downranking. Do they cover all of the potential domains being loaded or are the only getting some of them? Kind of like how I highlighted the differences in the ones here.
Ive tried multiple no amz goggles, singularly and in tandem, with no discernible effect. I looked into most of them and the domain lists are pretty deep.
Also when apply negative operators in search bar it yields even more amz hits…
The same problem occurs using no pinterest goggles, still get a ton of results with them in there
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@Zoar can you show which types of results you’re talking about? And specifically which Goggles you’re using?
No amazon- ecosia No-amazon- dd21s No amazon- goggles 101
Are some of them. A search for Selle Italia bicycle saddle yields 8 returns on the top page 7 of which are Amazon. The goggles have no effect
@Zoar just tried to replicate and here’s what I’m seeing. The screenshot is kind of what I was asking. You’ll notice not a single Amazon listing is there.
@Zoar I guess the big question is whether you’re actually activating it? To be clear, we can only activate one Goggle at a time. So the idea of having two running wouldn’t be a thing.
So like in my top screenshot in my last comment, you see how there’s a listing of Goggles on the top? Things like Tech Blogs and all? None of those are active. They are just ones available for me to turn on. But then you see the Amazon-Excluded Search I used, it has the orange around it.
But now on the one below, I tried it with No Amazon and it seems to work as well:
Got it! So I erred by thinking selecting them from the + tab in goggles search bar and seeing the check mark and their addition into the search page activated fhem but there was a final step I was missing, thanks for the assist
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Just to confirm, it’s working for you now and no issues?
It is working, thanks for the assist!