Google empowers users to edit search results

November 21st, 2008 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- If Google delivers useless search results, just erase them and you won't see them again.

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earls - Nov 21, 2008
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Awesome, I've been using the "Customize Google" Firefox plugin for these hacks for quite a while. Glad to see it's supported natively. Now we can get rid of those idiot domain squatters.
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MKS - Nov 21, 2008
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nice.... but what if we delete a search result by mistake.... can we recover it ever?
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Flakk - Nov 21, 2008
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ROFL! now you can do googles job for them!!

As a matter of principle I never google anything.
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superhuman - Nov 22, 2008
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Nice, as google is my homepage I often use it in place of bookmarks as it saves time, it is especially fast when the page is on top of results and i can just hit "lucky". This new addition should make it even more applicable
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