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		aworks on Aug 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why don't we have personalized search engines? 20 years ago, Google had a custom search engine capability where you could give it a list of sites to search from. Is that functionality still around?

lrem on Aug 26, 2024 [–]

I don’t think it is, but I’ve seen someone make a browser extension to transparently add query parameters to always exclude some sites. I imagine doing the opposite (for some queries search only this list of sites) is also achievable.

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