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

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Post by corrral »

ezekg wrote: post #3

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

I need to get around to signing up. I started a couple weeks back, but stalled about some question re: what search means to you, or something like that, went off for a while to think about it, and never went back.

Guess I need to just write "finding stuff" or something trite and get on with it.

(don't ask me open-ended questions as part of a signup process unless you want me to brain-lock and never finish the form :-) Though I just checked and it looks like the signup flow's very different and more normal now, so that's good)

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

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Post by nsilvestri »

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…

Kagi is honestly not good at all about local results. I use !g the most often when trying to find information about stores or restaurants. For all other "encyclopedic" knowledge, like Wikipedia (pinned), Stack Exchange, blogs, etc., Kagi has way less SEO spam than Google.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ki_ wrote: post #21
dangerlibrary wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment has me confused and slightly concerned about what organizations you would consider credible.

News organizations are low quality by default. Their bussiness model is creating multiple articles per day and make it sound interesting, sometimes more interesting than what really happened. This so they can maximize viewer retention and therefore maximize ad-revenue. It's not really a recipe where you'll find the most accurate truth. You can still read their websites for information, but when you google, those news…

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

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Post by kazinator »

To take the best advantage of this, you want to crank up the results per page setting in the search engine. This is because the deletions simply cut results form each page without the results being repaginated.

I made a lot of use of uBlacklist; but then I found Huawei's petalsearch.com, where pretty much none of the crap that I deleted appears in the first place.

uBlacklist is really just a band-aid solution for a garbage search engine; it doesn't address the root cause.

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

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Post by erikcw »

donohoe wrote: post #110

Anyone know a similar extension that works for DuckDuckGo too? (Ideally one extension that covers numerous search engines) I've been using "Personal Blocklist(not by Google)" for Google search and is pretty good too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

According to the README, this also works with DDG and some other search engines.

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

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Post by yakubin »

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…

Stack Exchange works pretty well. There is some moderation on SE, but not much IMO.

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

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Post by corrral »

xigoi wrote: post #25
fokker wrote: post #15

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The real inclusivity is being able to use the word “black” without seeing a connection with race in it.

I try to be sympathetic to the "color blind is still racist" thing, since I'm white so maybe my perspective's not that useful.

But I definitely feel a lot more racist and way more race-aware, to no productive purpose and in contexts where it can't possibly matter, than I did 20 years ago, as a result of this stuff. My kids are way more race-aware than I was at their ages, as a result, too. I sure hope whatever good is coming of this is worth it. I don't like it a bit.

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

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Post by freediver »

PeterPumpkin45 wrote: post #51
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.

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…

Kagi does not have local search results (yet).

Speed is on average faster than Google for most users, so if that is not the case for you please let us know via https://kagifeedback.org

And if there is any kind of bug, glitch or issue please also use kagifeedback.org

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

If is far from perfect. I would say we are 30% through what our vision for the product looks like. I can totally understand how it does not meet your expectation right now.

The beauty of our model is that people pay with their wallets, not their data, and the momemt the product sucks, we lose a customer (or don't get one like in your case). Incentives are perfectly aligned.

The fact that barely a week afer the public beta launch, over a thousand people already pay for Kagi, while still being in beta and (very) rough around the edges, is the greatest motivation we can have to serve our user community well and continuing improving the product in the future.

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

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Post by freediver »

nsilvestri wrote: post #112
gnuj3 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Kagi is honestly not good at all about local results. I use !g the most often when trying to find information about stores or restaurants. For all other "encyclopedic" knowledge, like Wikipedia (pinned), Stack Exchange, blogs, etc., Kagi has way less SEO spam than Google.

We haven't rolled out our local results yet. It is work in progress, ETA 2 weeks to shipping first version.

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

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Post by xigoi »

corrral wrote: post #117
xigoi wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real inclusivity is being able to use the word “black” without seeing a connection with race in it.

I try to be sympathetic to the "color blind is still racist" thing, since I'm white so maybe my perspective's not that useful. But I definitely feel a lot more racist and way more race-aware, to no productive purpose and in contexts where it can't possibly matter, than I did 20 years ago, as a result of this stuff. My kids are way more race-aware than I was at their ages, as a result, too. I sure hope whatever good i…

I agree, but this is not even a case of “colorblind is still racist” — it's seeing race where there is none.
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