Search Exclude

Search Exclude is a browser extension which allows users to maintain a list of sites to permanently exclude from their search results on major browsers.

It is currently functional on Google and DuckDuckGo, and on Firefox.

Search Exclude is not yet listed on the extension store but can be tested manually.

Rationale

Some sites that are less than useful appear frequently in search results and it is tedious to manually include all the site exclusions. By saving toggle-able lists of sites to excludes, search efficiency can be improved.

Personally, I want to publish a relatively simple but useful browser extension to learn about browser extensions generally and the publishing process.

Installing

Download the latest release, a .zip file.
Extract the .zip file
Load a new temporary add-on by navigating to about:debugging in Mozilla Firefox.
Select the manifest.json file in the extracted folder to add it to Firefxo

Using

Click the Search Exclude icon button on the browser navigation bar to drow down the popup
Click "new category" to add a new category to exclude
Click the drop down button to show the inside of that category
Click "new row" to add a new site to exclude
Type the URL of the site
Check/uncheck all sites or categories you want to exclude/include
Perform a search in duckduckgo or Google
After the search executes, the page will refresh once to exclude all the sites you have selected

Developing, Testing

clone the git repository
run tsc --watch and webpack --watch in terminal processes
run npm test-page to run the UI testing suite to test components with random data

Next Steps