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

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Post by ASalazarMX »

skilled wrote: post #33
bstar77 wrote: post #4

I only need this for W3Schools.

Absolutely crazy how such a low quality site comes up for technical queries. Speaks volumes for how smart Google algorithm is.

I wouldn't doubt many people click W3Schools results when they see them, they're not that bad, the explanation is straightforward, and it has exercises and a REPL for immediate practice. That reinforces their ranking as useful results.

Conversely, I have no idea why Pinterest plagues everything. Does it manage to trick many people into clicking for a login form?

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

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Post by geysersam »

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.

You'll get used to it. Of course you won't limit your access to knowledge just to save $20 monthly.

How much does it cost to have a suboptimal search experience 50-200 times every day? Saving 5 seconds (on average) per search, that's something like $10 per day in savings (provided you search during work hours).

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

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Post by secondcoming »

voxl wrote: post #135
zo1 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That particular framing only has "power" if we give it. Once you open that can of worms, you will struggle to put it back. Next up we get white, yellow and red. Take all the words out there that use those and imagine what chaos and hatred it'll cause when we start trying to accommodate everyone.

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You’re gaslighting by pretending that calling it a blacklist is ‘random’.

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

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Post by geysersam »

ezekg wrote: post #167
goda90 wrote: post #67

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Yeah, $10 is steep, but I feel like I'd be happy with a bundle deal. Search, reliable email, a small bit of storage, and other small services for $20 or $30. I'm sure I'm underestimating how much I use search, but it just doesn't feel like an essential part of my life that I'd want to pay that much.

I'd honestly rather see Kagi focus entirely on search and not try to branch out too much. These days, I think startups try to chew up too many markets at once instead of really honing in on one.

100% agree. Maybe I'm missing something but where's the synergy between search and email + storage unless you're harvesting data?

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

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Post by sanketpatrikar »

dopa42365 wrote: post #148
kramerger wrote: post #34

Finally I can get rid of those deadend Pinterest results... Edit. And quora

You can use something like this to get rid of their millions of domains. /. pinterest. \.. / /. dreamstime. \.. / /. depositphotos. \.. / /. gettyimages. \.. / and whatever else you (don't) want. Or get rid of specific TLDs in your search results. /.\.(porn|casino|xxx|zone)\/(.*)/

Seems like you didn't properly escape some of your asterisks.

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

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Post by matyasrichter »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #24
ezekg wrote: post #3

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

Does it support IE6? (Google does, and it's a browser I enjoy using.)

Is this the next iteration of the "I browse with javascript disabled" HN comment?

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Post by jandrese »

Normille wrote: post #50
Belphemur wrote: post #20

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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…

You think Quora is bad? Try blocking Pinterest from your search results. I swear those bastards have registered pinterest

You will know you have died and gone to hell when you can navigate to pinterest.mil.

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

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Post by barbazoo »

IshKebab wrote: post #168
barbazoo wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean? Personally I'm trying to avoid any terms that imply that black==bad. Black people, just like other groups of people, experience discrimination and abuse and I'm mindful of that. To me it would be the same as naming something christianlist and muslimlist to denote "good" and "bad", maybe that's a better example. At the end of the day I think my approach is not making the world any worse and possible…

I think the fundamental issue is that you think there is some link between racism and the fact that the word "black" is commonly associated with bad things. People aren't racist towards black people because of the word black. (You might have noticed that non-black people can be victims of racism too!) And "black" isn't associated with badness because of racism against black people either. And it isn't even the black…

> And it isn't even the black community calling for this. It's white SJWs. Ok I think they probably do have good intentions but they also want low-effort feel-good actions and don't really care what effect they actually have.

> The only effect is making people who do it feel like they've done something worthwhile.

I feel like you're discrediting your point a little bit with this by labeling people with that term and assuming something about what "they" want or think.

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

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Post by sanketpatrikar »

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...

You can enable uBlacklist to work on DDG and other search engines from settings.
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