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Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by PeterPumpkin45 »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #9
ezekg wrote: post #3

Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi ( https://kagi.com ), which offers the same feature. :)

I have yet to find any competitor which provides its own results and is even 50% as good as Google's results. Features are nice, but for a search engine results are everything.

A lot of people seem surprisingly happy with Kagi's results but I would like to put my hand up as someone who is, so far, underwhelmed and occasionally frustrated. I realise I've started automatically starting almost all of my searches with the prefix to search via Google instead. I recently reinstalled my desktop OS and I've been happily delaying configuring Kagi as my default browser search.

It's slower, sometimes painfully so (maybe due to downtime? Understandable but not fun). I really miss Google's cards; for example, finding opening hours for a local business is immediate in Google, but requires opening another link which may not even be correct in Kagi. When I'm searching errors or code examples, sometimes Kagi embeds a useless snippet with little relevance. Sometimes it has a bizarre 'memory effect' where one or two of the results will be ghosts from an earlier search but completely unrelated to the current search term.

It's not perfect. I'm suspicious of people pretending otherwise.

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by Jedd »

ki_ wrote: post #8

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With google you can search with type:pdf so that you filter in scientific papers.

I'd also suggest that the phrase 'correct information' does suggest you already know what you believe you're looking for (otherwise how would you know what you're reading is incorrect?).

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by krono »

LightHugger wrote: post #38
krono wrote: post #35

I've posted this before, but you can achieve the same with uBlock Origin static filters alone without having to install any additional extensions. For example: To block results from specific domains on Google or DDG: google.*##.g:has(a[href*="thetopsites.com"]) duckduckgo.*##.results > div:has(a[href*="thetopsites.com"]) And it's even possible to target an element's text content with a `:has-text(/regex/)` selector:…

Having a button to remove the offending site right from the search results saves quite a bit of time, so while i usually prefer not to have extra extensions, i see a lot of utility here.

Not denying that. However, unless I'd be blocking new domains on a weekly basis, I just don't think it's worth installing an additional extension for something that's so easily achieved without.

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by iLoveOncall »

rfrey wrote: post #43
iLoveOncall wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have yet to find any competitor which provides its own results and is even 50% as good as Google's results. Features are nice, but for a search engine results are everything.

From reading the site it seems like Kagi uses Google on the backend, so it's probably privacy, filtering and presentation you're paying for.

Yeah but I actually like the fact that Google knows what I search, because it adapts the results to what I care about. When I search for "python" I don't want to learn about snakes.

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by suslik »

gnuj3 wrote: post #22
iLoveOncall wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have yet to find any competitor which provides its own results and is even 50% as good as Google's results. Features are nice, but for a search engine results are everything.

Kagi is even better than Google in my opinion. I’m still thinking whether I want to pay a subscription for it but it’s tempting since the results are so good. M When I first switched from Google to DDG I found myself using g! all the time as I wasnt happy with the results, especially local such as finding a specific shop in my area etc. I dont recall using g! with Kagi, and when I was bored and compared the Kagi sear…

To me Kagi also feels way better than google. I am paying for the service.

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by dmos62 »

Kuinox wrote: post #39
MauranKilom wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, $10 a month is pretty steep. It's great that they offer a free plan, but that comes with all the misaligned incentives again. Any reason they don't just do pay-per-use (1 cent per query)?

From their usage panel, I do 50-200 research per day. In 10 days my usage cost is estimated at 11.69$. It look like each query cost 1.25$ to Kagi. I don't want to be conscientious of the cost of my search usage, I fear it will inconsciously reduce my search usage and access to knowledge.

> It look like each query cost 1.25$ to Kagi.

Correction: they're saying 80 searches cost them ~1$.

>Why does Kagi cost $10/month?

>Our proposed price is dictated by the fact that search has a non zero cost. With other search engines, advertisers cover this cost. But it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches.

>Someone searching 8 times a day would perform about 240 searches a month, costing us $3. An average Kagi beta user is actually searching about 30 times a day. At $10/month, the price does not even cover our cost for average use, and we are basically betting that average use will go down a bit with time because during beta people may be searching more than normal due to testing etc.

>Our goal is to find the minimum price at which we can sustain the business. If it turns out that we have more room we will decrease it. But it can also be that we may need to increase it.

>The free plan will be limited to 50 searches a month (and this too has to be paid by paying customers which makes the above math even harder).

Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results

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Post by XorNot »

krono wrote: post #54
LightHugger wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having a button to remove the offending site right from the search results saves quite a bit of time, so while i usually prefer not to have extra extensions, i see a lot of utility here.

Not denying that. However, unless I'd be blocking new domains on a weekly basis, I just don't think it's worth installing an additional extension for something that's so easily achieved without.

I mean I definitely would be: I block YouTube channels pretty aggressively now, and there's a lot of websites I'd like to get rid of.
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