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Apr 3

New Feature: User Domain Blacklists

Posted by Michael Simmons   •   4 Comments

By far one of our biggest requests is the ability to create a custom blacklist of domains to block from search results. Today we are launching this setting for all accounts. Just head over to your settings page and click on “Blacklist”.

Your blacklist can include an unlimited amount of domains you want to block from being seen on your search results. Every domain is separated by a line break (return key). For best results please exclude “http://”, “www.”, and slashes. A typical list should look like this:

xyz.com
abc.com
…

Currently, this list only applies to search results on serph.com and not RSS feeds. We are working on bringing this to the feeds shortly.

By using this feature you are also helping us make Serph better. Every so often we are going to look through everyones blacklist and see which domains merit complete removal from our search results. So if you see a site that is either spam or inappropriate, please add it.

Please leave your feedback in the comments below.

Feb 5

Round One Of Serph Improvements

Posted by Michael Simmons

The first week of private beta testing has been a great ride. We’ve received dozens of feedback from our users. Throughout the past week we were rolling out improvements to Serph based on user feedback.

  1. Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 search plugins are fully functional
  2. Single and double quotes are now allowed in the search form
  3. The settings page conveys changes properly
  4. “Recent Searches” is updated properly
  5. Interface fixes
  6. Overall improvement to system performance