Google-search – Hide reviews from google search

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Some times i am looking for a game to play and the google search result give me the reviews, but I would like to play without being biased by the reviews.

Best Answer

Well..that's not possible. Google search engine displays reviews automatically and there is no way "disabling" or "hiding" them. You can remove bad reviews by reporting them, but there is no possibility of hiding them altogether.

Related Solutions

Google Search – How to Search for ‘Do a Barrel Roll’ Without Triggering It

You can avoid Google doing a barrel roll by encapsulating your query in quotation marks: "do a barrel roll" will not, ironically enough, do a barrel roll.

This should work for all easter egg queries: quotation marks signal to Google that it should search for the literal string instead of interpreting it to mean something else.

Compare:

tilt vs. "tilt"
askew vs. "askew"
once in a blue moon vs. "once in a blue moon"

This of course doesn't work when Google Instant is turned on, as Google will submit the search query before you can finish encapsulating the query in quotation marks. Unfortunately, this is a limitation/"feature" of Google Instant: to prevent Google from submitting the query before you're finished typing it, you'd have to disable Google Instant.

Beyond this, it's possible to disable certain types of Easter eggs, provided you know the nature of the Easter egg beforehand. You could, for instance, prevent the do a barrel roll Easter egg by adding the following snippet to your browser's custom stylesheet:

body {
  -webkit-animation-name: none;
  -moz-animation-name: none;
}

But since this would affect every <body> tag on every webpage, it's not ideal either.

You could get around this by using Stylish, which allows you to specify site-specific custom stylesheets ("userstyles"). Creating a userstyle with the following should work:

@-moz-document: domain("google.com")
@-webkit-document: domain("google.com")
@document: domain("google.com")

body {
  -webkit-animation-name: none;
  -moz-animation-name: none;
}

Of course, while this would allow you to disable this specific Easter egg, Google can and most likely will come up with new ones that do unexpected things in the name of being quirky. Without disabling JavaScript or Google Instant, it'd be nigh impossible to prevent them from happening at least once.

Google Search Privacy – Turning Off Search Results Indirection

Author's note (July 2016): The answer below was written in 2011, and is still working in Google Search. I have published new extensions that use a different method to remove the search result indirection, which works on even more Google sites and on mobile.

TL;DR: _{^{Don't track me Google is a user script}} Don't track me Google is an extension I made that allows you to copy normal URLs, while hiding the referrer to the sites you're visiting.

Installation

"Don't track me Google" at the Chrome Web Store (updated in 2016).
"Don't track me Google" for Firefox (desktop & Android) (since 2016).
"Don't track me Google" at Userscripts.org (works in Google search only, not updated any more)

Explanation

I have written a method which replaces the link-modifying rwt function with a bogus function that can't be touched by Google.

By preventing Google from overwriting the rwt function, the link cannot be modified any more. This method depends on the Object.defineProperty method (Firefox 4+ and Chrome 5+). The fallback requires Firefox 2+ and Chrome 1+.

Firefox 2+

If you only want to remove the link-modifying behaviour, and not care about showing your search queries through the referrer, this GreaseMonkey script can be used:
(very non-strict @include rules using wildcards and the Magic TLD)

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Don't track me Google
// @namespace      Rob W
// @include        http://*.google.tld/*
// @include        https://*.google.tld/*
// @version        1.2
// @grant          none
// ==/UserScript==

"use strict";
if (Object.defineProperty) {
   Object.defineProperty(unsafeWindow,"rwt", {value: function(){return !0;}, writable: false });
} else {
   unsafeWindow.__defineGetter__('rwt',function(){return function(){return !0}});
}

Google Chrome does not support Magic TLDs, so the closest you can get is *://*.google.com/* (repeat the rule, replace .com with other supported Google TLDs).

In Chrome, scripts have to be injected in the form of a <script> tag, because Content scripts are executed in an "isolated world".

Chrome & Firefox 2+ - Link to source code

On January 21st, 2012, I published an extended version, which includes a referrer-hiding method, so that others cannot see your search query. This greatly improves your privacy.

The mechanism is explained at this answer on Stack Overflow.
Additional details are available at the source code and Don't track me Google description, a user script which fixes the URIs and hides the referrer.

(Update from 2016: this referrer hiding is not needed any more in modern browser because of the referrer policy, which only shows the domain in the Referer header)