How to Exclude a Site on Google Search
Not all search results in Google Search are directly relevant to the desired search. For example, you want to search other websites about Gfanatic. Results from www.gfanatic.com would turn out useless because you already know about Gfanatic from this site.
Another possible reason why people prefer to exclude some sites from their search is to lessen the commercial aspect of the search results. Commercialized websites usually show up the first granted its relevance to the keyword. But it doesn’t necessarily contain relevant information.
Now for those of you who have been researching on how to exclude sites from your Google search, here’s how. After typing in the keyword/s enclosed with quotation marks, simply type the hyphen or minus sign followed by the word ‘site’ then a colon and then the website url.
Syntax: <”keyword/s”>-site:<URL of the site you want to exclude search results from>
Example: “Gfanatic”-site:http://gfanatic.com
Don’t forget the hyphen or the minus sign. Remember it signifies to cancel out. If you don’t include the hyphen or the minus sign, it will search the keyword on that specific site.
Examples:
To Exclude a Site
“Google Earth”-site:http://gfanatic.com
To Search in a Particular Site (no hyphen / minus sign)
“Google Earth” site:http://gfanatic.com
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