I may be the only individual on earth who has banned wikipedia from my Google search results. All it takes is a "-wikipedia.org" appended to a Google search query either directly or via a macro.
moon rocks -wikipedia.org
Google seems to be totally intertwined to Wikipedia. There does not seem to be a simple way to blacklist Wikipedia.
George Washington -wikipedia.org
Yields - The White House (.gov)
Vs
FIVE huge interactive boxes from wikipedia : is Google in cahoots with Wikipe-distopia?
Wikipedia is fired! Thank God, Gone for good.
fruit -wikipedia.org
Oh man the results are good.
The Internet is actually useful again
covid -wikipedia.org
See the difference for yourself
-Nytimes.com and wikipedia partnership is gone! Hallelujah
john ford -wikipedia.org
Some of Wikipedia tripe trolls its way past the search exclusion in the form of clickbait questions- advertising to direct you to wikipedia (being one of several sites using what most be a Google tool or ad product)
I have banned Wikipedia from my web searches
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Re: I have banned Wikipedia from my web searches
the current theory is that browser programmers are "told" to make sure there's no way the browser can be set up to automatically exclude certain search results. The search engines certainly would not like it.