Rule suggestions

Search Control can propose a rule you might want, drawn from the rules you have already saved. The suggestions appear in the Search Control pane in Settings; you need do nothing to see them, and you add one only if you choose to.

Where suggestions come from

A suggestion is derived from a pattern in your own saved configuration — never from anything you have searched for. The pattern Search Control looks for is subdomain consolidation: if you have blocked several different subdomains of one site, Search Control notices and offers a single rule that blocks the whole site at once, so you need not chase each subdomain by hand.

You block:   ads.example.com
             promo.example.com
             track.example.com
Suggested:   block example.com (and its subdomains)

The proposal is shown in plain language, with a short reason — "You block 3 subdomains of example.com" — so you can see why it was offered.

Suggestions are conservative

Search Control suggests sparingly, and only when it is confident. It backs off the moment your saved rules point the other way — for example, if you raise or keep one subdomain of a site you otherwise block, it will not propose blocking the whole site, because that would steamroll the exception you set. It also stays quiet if a rule you already have covers the same ground. When there is nothing safe to suggest, the panel shows nothing rather than inventing busywork.

Accept is the only action

Each suggestion carries a single button: Accept (shown as Add), which turns the proposal into a normal personal rule. There is deliberately no "dismiss." A suggestion you ignore simply stays a suggestion, and one you accept is fully reversible — delete the rule it created and you are back where you started. Because the only action adds something reversible, there is nothing to undo and no queue to manage.

An accepted rule is tagged as suggested, so where it changes a result the why tag on the results page notes that the rule came from a suggestion. It behaves like any other rule thereafter, and respects the same limit on how many rules an account may have.