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Surprised to not see fandom.com on there. Just copy/paste plus SEO of actual wikis plus so many ads you can't read the content.
Unfortunately, fandom has a decent amount of original content in addition to the copy/paste stuff, so you'd miss out on quite a bit if you block them.
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And can't forget about expertsexchange.
Even 2 decades later, you can never unsee it
They primarily used "Experts Exchange" and http://www.experts-exchange.com/
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Didn't Google have this feature like two decades ago (blocks, at least)? It's not quite a search innovation, more like a "caring about your users as a business strategy" innovation.
Yes, they had it for a few years a decade ago. If you think through the feature, it's not at all obvious that it's a good idea for an established search engine targeting the general public [0]. But even then it might be a great idea for a search engine that's trying to establish an initial niche. It doesn't even matter whether the idea actually works well in practice: if 100k people think that manual curation of sear…
Which suggests to me that while kagi might be good now, if it gets popular it may undergo enshittification in an effort to monetise its popularity.
Google: we need to have your personal information because that allows us to provide you with a better experience. Me: Ok, please block these domains: "pinterest.com, w3schools.com, ..." Google: Sorry, can't do that!
Comedian Phil Wang has this joke about Netflix not recommending him his eponymous show the day it was released. “I am Phil Wang! There’s nothing on Netflix more relevant to me than an hour of my own thoughts!” https://podtail.com/en/podcast/netflix-is-a-daily-joke/phil-...
https://twitter.com/missdianemorgan/status/16718830928004464...
The single biggest deficiency of Kagi is Apple’s exclusive control over the list of selectable default search providers in iOS Safari. It is infuriating and is the one thing that has caused me to seriously try other browsers on mobile. The problem is, they are all terrible in some small paper cutting ways (including Orion, though that has been rapidly improving).
I realize this is probably not the solution you want, but there is an official iOS Safari extension that will intercept all address bar searches and route them to Kagi. I don’t remember how much it costs, and it doesn’t seem to work super well with private browsing, but it’s better than nothing and works well for what it is. Ymmv https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kagi-search-for-safari/id16077...
Orion needs a lot of polish, but I am hopeful they will get there.
Even the defaults match this Kagi top list.
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Can't tell if sarcasm or not.
The "in their little heads" gives it away.
On my main pc it is 100% convinced I want to watch starcraft, technology, coding and fitness videos. Im not completely uninterested but the goal of the design seems to make my mind even smaller. It is constantly signaling that... how put it.... it thinks Im shallow as fuck.
Then again on the other box it is convinced I want to see nothing but old people planting rice. Its probably not good for its world view. If it was conscious it would be a cruel thing to do.
oh the thoughts going on in my small mind...
Half these sites are my guilty pleasures, pinterest.com, dailymail.co.uk, tiktok.com...
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It often outranks MDN official docs which these days are very readable, in-depth, with examples, and a simple UI and the only time I click to inappropriately named W3Schools is by accident because it's the top result and I'm expecting MDN and then I click back and that's why I don't like it.
I have similar feelings about baeldung.com. It isn't that the content is inherently bad, but it is super annoying that when I search for a java class the first few results are from baeldung instead of the official javadocs.
Every time Kagi comes up, a lot of folks say it is too expensive. That it should be unlimited. That if it was just $x per month, then it would be worth it. That they feel uncomfortable about the limits. I will simply say that I cannot imagine going back to being a “user” of a “search provider” over being a paying Kagi customer. It is the single most critical service I worry about losing. If they octupled the price to…
Isn't that what their $25/mo plan gives you?