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

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Post by oofbey »

Belphemur wrote: post #20
dezmou wrote: post #6

Great now I will be able to never see quora.com again

I'd argue all Q&A services devolve into madness when they get mainstream. Before Quora we had yahoo answer and before that surely something else. As soon as they get mainstream the quality of question and answer goes down. Those systems only work with well defined constraints either on the subject of the question or the validation of the expertise of the people answering. All of those platform just open the valve wit…

Stackoverflow and it’s dozens of sigs seem fine. What do you think is the exception? Not mainstream?

I’d argue it’s good community policing with a carefully Maintained incentive structure.

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

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Post by MauranKilom »

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

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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.

> 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.

Sure, but this whole adventure won't last very long if the company loses money even on paying customers. If your usage costs them about $30 a month but you only pay $10, who will pay the remaining $20? Someone has to finance your access to knowledge in the end...

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

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Post by hedora »

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

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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…

Ha! I'm the opposite. When I use someone else's computer, I get confused because the results are all crap, then I have to manually type duckduckgo.com into their URL bar.

At least Google Search has started blocking itself with a consent wall on new devices. It's the best feature from them in a while, at least for me. I wish their tracking stuff was opt in too.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

wakeupcall wrote: post #63
krono wrote: post #54

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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've started blocking results using ublock last year after it has been mentioned here, and I've got to the point where I have a script I can use to generate the relevant filters for google/bing and a few other search engines. When I spot any domain which has been squatted by SEO and useless comparison-alike websites I immediately block it. This has brought up the quality of results IMMENSELY. I'm blocking domains on…

The interesting thing is that Google could do this easily if they wanted to, but for some reason they don't. After all, if you can do it as an end user and in a low enough amount of time that it is worth it for you then surely Google can do it, they get to amortize that time across many more users.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

krono wrote: post #76
__ryan__ wrote: post #69

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…have you used Google lately? I’m blocking junk results daily.

Been using this method to build on my blocklist for a few years, it's quite long by now ;)

Any chance of sharing it?

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

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Post by jarek83 »

ezekg wrote: post #3

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

Just tried the first example search "best laptop" and results are not really very useful - usually old content and none of the results showed the publishing dates of the articles. https://kagi.com/search?q=best+laptop

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

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Post by pbronez »

LightHugger wrote: post #64
account42 wrote: post #48

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Same reason why I still use uMatrix in addition to uBlock even though custom rules in the latter are not any less powerful - user interface matters.

Exactly! i often wish the umatrix UI was just merged into ublock origin as an optional tool.

Wasn’t it though? Just click the “I’m an advanced user” button in the uBlock Origin options. Then you get the per-domain block details in the uBlock Origin extension button just like uMatrix.
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