Hide w3schools on DuckDuckGo by Inan Hira

5 Stars out of 5

4 reviews

Rated 5 out of 5
by 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫, a month ago
Rated 5 out of 5
by aminomancer, 3 years ago
Edit: Thanks, it does hide the result. I was indeed seeing the proper w3schools.com, but after updating the addon I do see that w3schools.com is gone. It might be nice to get rid of w3docs.com also, since it seems to be the same thing and also appears at a similar rate. Like if you were to search `background-color css` (as a typical search result that, without the addon, would yield w3schools results towards the top), you'd get w3docs.com towards the top. But I get that's not what the addon says it does, so it's fine.
Developer response
posted 3 years ago
Hi @aminomancer.

I can confirm that @ddg search shortcut works fine on Firefox 102.0 and Firefox Developer Edition 103.0b5.

When I use `@ddg` shortcut to search for w3schools (`@ddg w3schools`), I see some other websites with w3schools in their hostname (w3schools[dot]in, w3schools[dot]com[dot]cn etc), but the original website is not listed in the results. Of course, relevant queries like `@ddg caption html` or `@ddg html table` works as expected, and removes w3s[dot]com results.

I'll consider searching for all occurrences of w3school in the hostname so that those similar websites might be hidden. But I must say, that sounds a bit out of the scope of this add-on. Perhaps I can add that as an opt-in option, which sounds better.

Thank you for your review and using the add-on.

> Sorry, I just noticed your comment.

> I'm on Firefox Developer Edition 103.0b5 (64-bit) and Firefox 102.0.1 (64-bit) and the extension works. I noticed that there are a lot of different websites using w3schools in their domainnames. I've been wondering if you're seeing one of those?

> v1.0.4 should work fine. Please let me know.
Rated 5 out of 5
by nasso, 5 years ago

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