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Originally Posted by WebSlave
Just out of curiosity, but does FaceBook, or even Google, have such an exclusion capability in searches? Heck, do any sites you frequent have this capability?
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The two mentioned sites do but it's comparing apples to oranges. Google gets extremely advanced but they have neural networks, a/b testing etc. that amount to having lots of $; closest to what we are talking about is use of negative (-) as Donald mentioned. Facebook has many search options to hide what you don't want to see, depending on what feed, groups or their shopping interface you are on. You can also prioritize so the uninteresting posts (in the users eyes) is last on the list. But, facebook is going for smart use of feeds after learning it's users through behavior and that is not a good fit in my eyes when you are actually searching for specific reptiles/amphibians.
Outside of these two, I test and develop for an application that does have the ability to add blacklist, whitelist and all areas in-between but it is built on Angular / nodejs so implementing is much easier with the new technologies, along with lots of $ to justify the added work.