Google on February 14 gave users of its Chrome Web browser the ability to block search results from low-quality websites known as content farms. Google's principal engineer Matt Cutts said Chrome users can download and install an extension for Chrome that blocks sites which provide "shallow or low-quality content" from their search results.
"When you block a site with the extension, you won't see results from that domain again in your Google search results," Cutts said in a blog post. "If installed, the extension also sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results." Cutts said the Chrome extension was available in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish in addition to English.