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Force Block at Google
While I am still not seeing the block sites option at Google when logged in to any of my accounts in any browser, there is a way to force Google to start blocking sites, even if you do not see the "Block all whatever.com results" link after a search result.Since I've not yet seen it, the example Google gives looks like this.
If you don't see that on your results, just go to the Manage Blocked Sites page once you are logged in. You can enter up to 500 sites into your personal block list. Google asks for a reason, but that can be left blank. After entering eHow, I tried a few searches and then found at the bottom of the results, the message letting me know that I blocked a result along with link for showing the blocked result and for managing my list.
I'm not sure how much I will use this, now that I have found a way to do so. First, I do not expect it to last for too long. Maybe Google will keep it for a few years at most, unless many searchers keep using it. Second, if it does last, a site that I block this year may well have very different content a few years hence, and I'll probably have forgotten that I've blocked it. In addition, at this point, the Manage Blocked Sites information is not linked from Search Settings or Account Settings, so I'll need to get a message like the one above to even remind me that it is there (or else I'll have to come back to this point and see if I still have blocked results).

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