search engine killfile

There's a new kind of spam. I don't know what it's called, yet, but you can see it if you search for "vitamin chocolate" on google and jump ahead to, say, page 10. You'll start seeing pages and pages of nonsensical search results from sites generated only to attract search queries. [Later: This example no longer works. Yay general improvements in technology!]

They're clearly produced by the same or similar software. The pages all have similar general titles: "Foo - info on Foo" or "section relating to Foo" or "information about Foo"; and next to the quotes with the search term in them, you'll find a general cacaphony of other high-scoring search terms.

Google has a way of specifying conditions for exclusion of results (prefix them with a -), and it has the site: operator that lets me refer to resutls on a specific site. So, once I've learned that a site X is run by thieving bastards that only want to trick idiots into accessing their links, I can use -site:X to exclude it from my results.

That works, but doing it again and again is tiresome.

What I would like to see somewhere would be a way of automatically filtering all my search results to never, ever return anything from domains (and their subdomains) that I've identified as spam domains. And give users a way of sharing such spam-search-trap blacklists with each other (e.g., by being able to load them from other URLs, in a nice, public XML format.)

That way, google doesn't have to interfere with the users or invent new ways of making their algorithm detect nonsensical results, yet the users have some way of retaliating against this ridiculous attention-grabbing.

[Thanks for the "report spam" link, tsuka. I didn't know you could do that. I've reported mine. I still think there's room for the private industry here.]