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uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#222Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi ( https://kagi.com ), which offers the same feature. :)
I've been using Kagi for almost two months and I absolutely love it. Well worth the $10/mo they started charging a couple weeks ago.
Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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How... do 80 searches cost them a dollar? That seems insanely high unless they're counting fixed costs that'll go down fast (on a per-search basis) as they get more subscribers. 8,000 searches costing a dollar, in actual resource use? OK, maybe. Still seems a little high, but maybe. 80? Are they paying someone to manually look things up for you?
I think I remember somewhere that they said a very high percentage of searches are totally unique i.e. never queried before thus not served from cache. I don't think they reword searches like Google does for a higher cache hit rate.
I never thought about that. That could explain a lot. Although I also recall Google themselves saying a lot of their queries are totally unique anyway.
Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#224Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi ( https://kagi.com ), which offers the same feature. :)
Beat me to it! Kagi also goes one step further and allows you to "pin" sites to the top. For example, I've got MDN pinned, so whenever I'm searching for web stuff they're the top result, even if there's an SEO'd blog post that normally would have come first. Abandoning Google is a huge motivator for me, but this feature set is why it's my primary search engine. Google tries to guess what I want and just ends up feedi…
I used to just download the MDN docs to my computer so I can search locally. Offline search beats everything. You don't need the Internet to search.
Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist/issues/160
Wow, while I can perhaps understand perhaps why the repository owner, given that he's not from the US (according to his Github) and lacking the historical background, could think that the fact that closing the issue with the comment "I don't want to touch this controversial issue" might actually be a neutral approach (it's not, he touched the issue when he chose the name in 2018, perhaps later if he heard about twitter and other companies explicitly choosing not to use this term anymore and finally now, when he had a chance to explain his possible blind spot, but instead chose to look aside).
That I can (maybe) understand, but every other commenter is intentionally toxic in a way I've never on open source projects.
Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#226To 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 g…
probably won't get any of those pesky results critical of the chinese government, either
Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who prefers to search in private tabs, I was wondering why do I need to create an account, until I saw the pricing. It's an interesting conundrum, either you search anonymously with bloat and ads, or have your activity pinned to your account maybe with ads, or guaranteed without ads for $10/month. As much as it bothers me, I'd prefer to work around the first option.
they now have a browser plugin that allows search in private tabs
All searches are logged to your account which is tied to your credit card / kpi.
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Blacklist comes from King Henry's "Little Black Book" which was a list of his political enemies.
Attempts to make it a racial thing are ahistorical and racist in and of themselves.
Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
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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.
By local I meant like when I’m searching for Adidas trainers or garden fence panels it will bring up shops that sell it in UK and a lot of them are local as they have physical shop in my location. With DDG I was getting shops from America even when I had UK setting switched on. For example tool shops like Screwfix or Toolstation never came up in DDG whereas Kagi shows them on first page.
I didnt mean like places to eat near me etc. sorry. Not something I really do to be honest.
Re: uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist/issues/160
Wow, while I can perhaps understand perhaps why the repository owner, given that he's not from the US (according to his Github) and lacking the historical background, could think that the fact that closing the issue with the comment "I don't want to touch this controversial issue" might actually be a neutral approach (it's not, he touched the issue when he chose the name in 2018, perhaps later if he heard about twitt…
> lacking the historical background
I think you might be the one lacking the historical background. Blacklist comes from King Henry and his list of political enemies.
> but every other commenter is intentionally toxic
I find realpoliticking innocous words to be toxic and problematic.