Merlin
Block or Highlight Search Engine Results

Block or Highlight Search Engine Results

Filter your search engine results. Block unwanted results and highlight the favorite ones. It works with Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo, Bing, Startpage, Ecosia, Yandex, OneSearch and Baidu. https://youtu.be/U_Ctx4Gq-lw

What is Block or Highlight Search Engine Results?
'Block or Highlight Search Engine Results' is a customizable search engine result filtering add-on for Firefox. You can use it to mark, highlight, hide, or block search results from platforms like Duckduckgo, Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines. Highlight pages from your preferred sources like Wikipedia, or block unwanted results like those from Facebook. It offers a more personalized web search experience, eliminating noise from your search results page.
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By: pistom
Users: 1,242 ▲ 13
Rating: 4.26 (70)
Version: 4.4.0 (Last updated: 2024-02-26)
Creation date: 2018-11-24
Weekly download count: 14
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • tabs
Size: 283.83K
URLs: Website
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# 2792 ▼ 9
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Summary
Analyze keywords

This is a blocker and a highlighter for your favorite search engine. It allows you to filter (mark, highlight, hide or block) search engine results in Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo, Bing, Startpage, Ecosia, Yandex, OneSearch and Baidu search engines. For example, you can highlight all results from Wikipedia and hide those form Facebook. If you use another search engine, let me know :)

User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Can effectively block unwanted search engine results
  • User-friendly interface
  • Works well with Google search
  • Great idea with different options for hiding or highlighting
  • Supports various search engines
Cons
  • Doesn't always block all results
  • Inability to block specific words instead of domains
  • Some users experienced issues with the add-on not working properly
  • Annoying arrow appears when hovering over results with no way to disable it
  • Slowdown and crashing of browser reported by some users
Most mentioned
  • Doesn't work for video search results
  • Issues with blocked domains affecting unrelated domains
  • Poor response from developers when reporting issues
  • Difficulty finding the add-on on GitHub
  • Inability to donate/support due to issues with contribution page
Recent reviews
Excellent turfed microsoft from search results, never got any thing from MS VBA advice except frustration, Gbu all
by Crispy, 2024-03-18
by Firefox user 18272145, 2024-02-04
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Safety
Risk impact

Block or Highlight Search Engine Results is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this add-on unless you absolutely trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood

Block or Highlight Search Engine Results is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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