Personal Blocklist extension for Google Chrome, blocks unwanted links from search results

Can’t get enough of Chrome extensions, well… Here is another one that you are going to love! Personal Blocklist is an experimental extension for Google Chrome — created by Google — where you (the user) get to control the results that appear in a Google search and stop unwanted Web page links with poor, low-quality content or spam to ever appear again. This free extension that you can easily download and install from the Chrome Web Store, allows you to block those annoying links that appear in a search result, and it will send the information of your blocks and unblocks activities to Google; so they can analyse them and better understand which are Web pages are the ones with good content, safer and interesting.

To use Personal Blocklist extension is pretty easy. Once you have it installed, in the next Google search result a new link called “Block” will appear, you just simple need to click it for the Web page link not to show up again in a search result.

Google search result - Personal Blocklist

 

You can view once again the blocked Website link by scrolling down the page and click the show link.

View blocked Website link

 

The option shown above will only allow you to view the blocked link every time you click show. If you want to totally unblock a Website link, you can by editing the list of all your blocked links, then click the icon of the Personal Blocklist extension in the top-right of Google Chrome.

Editing - Personal Blocklist

 

This Personal Blocklist is ready for download now and it is available in these languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

 

Useful Links

Source Chrome Web Store

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Mauro Huculak is a Windows How-To Expert who started Pureinfotech in 2010 as an independent online publication. He has also been a Windows Central contributor for nearly a decade. Mauro has over 14 years of experience writing comprehensive guides and creating professional videos about Windows and software, including Android and Linux. Before becoming a technology writer, he was an IT administrator for seven years. In total, Mauro has over 20 years of combined experience in technology. Throughout his career, he achieved different professional certifications from Microsoft (MSCA), Cisco (CCNP), VMware (VCP), and CompTIA (A+ and Network+), and he has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for many years. You can follow him on X (Twitter), YouTube, LinkedIn and About.me.