Stop Looking at Me, Me!

July 23, 2012 6:26 PM

Is there any program that can prevent one from searching for specific terms in Google?

Recently something happened to me and there is news being posted about me on the internet. I have a (perhaps understandable yet annoying) curiosity about the reports and have been Googling myself too much. I would like to stop doing that altogether but need some help. I can't block Google altogether (I have other work to do!) but is there some program that can block specific searches within Google ( my name!)? I haven't been able to find anything like that and I wonder if you know of anything. Thanks!

(I don't need any moral help, just technical help...)

posted by Clotilde to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

If you use Chrome, you can use Nanny for Google Chrome with a regular expression. From the documentation:

11. Can I block certain patterns of URLs ?
A sample scenario is this : I want to block all Google searches for games but other queries are ok. Yes, you can do it by having a blocked URL as "google.com/search.*games" .
posted by aphorist at 6:46 PM on July 23, 2012

Thanks! Perfect.
posted by Clotilde at 7:57 PM on July 23, 2012

In the end, that didn't work for me. I played around with it a bit. But the program StayFocused is working great.
posted by Clotilde at 3:07 AM on July 25, 2012