Google has off late indulged in testing a new feature called “Preferred Sites” Well, Preferred Sites is an experimental feature for Google Search that will help you tell Google which sites you rely most and thereby let you personalize the results by adding a list of sites in the front pages of your search results or the sites you want to appear more often when you search.
According to Google, “The preferred sites feature lets you set your Google Web Search preferences so that your search results match your unique tastes and needs. Fill in the sites you rely on the most, and results from your preferred sites will show up more often when they’re relevant to your search query.”

Alex Chitu of the Google System blog on experimenting the new feature:
“After adding IMDB and New York Times, the results for [how to lose friends and alienate people] were changed dramatically: two pages from nytimes.com were promoted to the top 3 results, but they weren’t in the first 30 results for a regular search.”

In order to participate in the experimental feature, you just have to login with your Google account and turn it on via the preferences page. To remove the feature, you can simply click the Remove link (that is located next to the site’s URL ) on the Google Preferences page!

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