In its quest to improve user experience, Google has announced that it now allows users to BLOCK domains. In essence, this is supposed to let you "get more of what you're looking for".
I don't really see this boosting user experience UNLESS it is socialized (ie., there's an algo that weeds out fake votes and detects a uniform authentic pattern and blocks domains based on social preferences)
Regardless, it might lead to less traffic if a lot of your site or blog's materials are generic content, duplicate-looking content, etc. I see this development favoring a move toward
"authority" type content.
Source:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/...-what-you.html
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You?ve probably had the experience where you?ve clicked a result and it wasn?t quite what you were looking for. Many times you?ll head right back to Google. Perhaps the result just wasn?t quite right, but sometimes you may dislike the site in general, whether it?s offensive, pornographic or of generally low quality. For times like these, you?ll start seeing a new option to block particular domains from your future search results. Now when you click a result and then return to Google, you?ll find a new link next to ?Cached? that reads ?Block all example.com results.?
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