How to block unrelated repo “cirosantilli/china-dictatorship” from Chinese search results?

[DBeidachazi]

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Hi, when I search repositories with Chinese keywords, I always get a ton of results from this repo:
👉 https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship

It’s totally unrelated to what I’m searching for — it’s just political stuff.
Is there any way to block or filter out this repo from my search results?

It really makes searching in Chinese pretty hard right now 😅

[Vicky9890]

@DBeidachazi ,its a good questions I also facing this but unfortunately, GitHub doesn’t currently provide a way to block or permanently hide a specific repository like cirosantilli/china-dictatorship from your search results but you can filter it out manually using GitHub search syntax like you use the "-repo:" filter, you can bookmark that search link and reuse it to automatically exclude that repo every time.
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You can use a browser extension like "uBlock Origin" or Search Filter for GitHub to hide results from specific repos automatically on the frontend.

[davevad93]

Hi @DBeidachazi,

Yes, you can use GitHub's advanced search syntax by excluding results with specific keywords, for example:

• cats NOT "hello world" matches repos with the word "cats" but not the words "hello world."

If your search query doesn't contain whitespace, you don't need to surround it with quotation marks:

• hello NOT world matches repos that have the word "hello" but not the word "world."

So in your case you should use the following search syntax:

• "Chinese keywords" NOT "china-dictatorship" or keywords NOT "china-dictatorship".

For more information, see the documentation: Understanding the search syntax.