Reminder that W3Schools is good now (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP) and has been good for several years. In the pre-Flexbox, pre-grid days, I used W3schools to build a framework-less mobile site as part of a JS bootcamp admissions test. The explanation on W3Schools about creating multiple floats with media queries was so clear, I stuck around.
Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
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Pages are primarily written for display & human consumption. Whatever was left of the "semantic HTML" went out the window when everyone switched to the JS SPA fad. As far as I know there is no "right" way to design a JS SPA overlay/loginwall in a way that search engines ignore it - it's not like Pinterest is intentionally ignoring a spec or designing a page that misleads search engine crawlers (other engines seem to…
> it's not like Pinterest is intentionally ignoring a spec or designing a page that misleads search engine crawlers And > The problem is that their pages exploit a flaw in Google's crawler… I apparently misunderstood your phrasing of “exploit” to mean something intentional. You submit that Pinterest is unintentionally exploiting a flaw in a way that both drives traffic to them and ruins search. I suppose in my shit s…
Apologies - I've edited my original comment to make it clearer that I meant "exploit" in a non-intentional way.
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
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> that's trying to establish an initial niche 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.
It's a paid service and all their competitors are 'free'. Enshittification doesn't fit their business model, they'd go under in a heartbeat.
Cable TV didn't use to have ads, until somebody figured out you could charge the customer and have other streams of revenue as well.
For Kagi, it's a matter of when, not if. Capitalism guarantees it.
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Any progress on a Linux version?
We haven't begun work on the Linux version of the browser yet. We will need to significantly expand our team before undertaking the development of a browser for a new platform.
Please make a browser for Linux too. And please make it based on Firefox preferably.
Thank you. Lots of love to Kagi, though I'm not a paying user yet but I do love what you folks are doing and want to f*ck Google.
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
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Nothing about that makes w3 a poor source. I get why you block it - so MDN is shown first. That’s fair. Im just saying its not a fault of W3. Because I tend to agree with that guy. W3 really isnt bad. A bit simplistic, and MDN is better, but its not bad.
W3 has a bad reputation because, at least a long while ago, it was rife with blatantly false or misleading information.
There's literally working code demos for everything on the site that's front-end or client-side.
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
#196It's interesting to see some websites on both the block and raise/pin lists, such as reddit and nytimes
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
#197Pinterest was certainly the first site I blocked. I've never understood the hate for w3schools. No, it's not MDN, but it's not offensively bad either, and it's been a helpful reference from time to time. If w3schools comes up first in a search, I trust that it probably has the answer to whatever very simple question I must have asked, unlike something like Pinterest, which will just be spam no matter what.
It was offensively bad and incorrect, and while I've heard it has improved since I think a lot of people just remember how it used to be and don't use it.
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
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I’m a former DDG user and current paying Kagi customer. One critical difference I’ve noticed is that frequently used bangs with DDG, but almost never with Kagi. I think this is because over a very short period of usage, I applied block/lower/raise/pin to various domains, and now my search results are almost always perfect . That said, I understand the value of going directly to a site. On that front, Kagi makes it tr…
> Kagi makes it trivial to define new bangs Lately I’ve moved to doing this at the browser level instead of via a search engine. It’s not a huge speed difference, but in principle it seems wrong to have an extra round-trip out to a search engine to redirect me to another site, when I can set up the keywords locally and go directly. Firefox makes it easy to do: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-addr…
Same. I never hit the limits of my Kagi plan, but it motivated me to add Firefox @searches for things like PyPI, where I know exactly what I want.
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
#199Pinterest was certainly the first site I blocked. I've never understood the hate for w3schools. No, it's not MDN, but it's not offensively bad either, and it's been a helpful reference from time to time. If w3schools comes up first in a search, I trust that it probably has the answer to whatever very simple question I must have asked, unlike something like Pinterest, which will just be spam no matter what.
It has probably improved a lot. It seemed like garbage a few years ago. Today it feels trustworthy and useful. I don't know what changed.
I still prefer MDN. I trust it to have up to date information. It was always very good and it has also improved, including the interactive examples.
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
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Similarly, I had no idea about this feature, but I now know I want it... I think I just need it to be cheaper, maybe $5 unlimited (or enough for me, which I think is certainly higher than 300, probably higher than 1000, at least without behaviour change) and I'd be in I assume it's a bit chicken and egg - marginal costs of new customers/extra searches is relatively low, it's the crawling & development/SRE that's expe…
Kagi doesn't charge you for bangs. (Disclaimer: Happy paying Kagi user here, just FYI)
Oh really? I just commented about how this misconception made me change my behavior. Wish that was more clear, or that I had higher reading comprehension.