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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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Post by lolinder »

munk-a wrote: post #19

I'm surprised Reddit isn't higher on the list. Either I'm on a desktop and Reddit's website is a bit clunky to use - or I'm on mobile and I have to click past several attempts at them to funnel me into their app. It is a true shame that so much useful information gets trapped within their ecosystem.

A lot of people actually disagree with you—Reddit is number four on the Raise list and on the Pin list, and every few months there's a thread on HN talking about how the only way to get useful information out of Google is to add "reddit" at the end of the search.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

munk-a wrote: post #19

I'm surprised Reddit isn't higher on the list. Either I'm on a desktop and Reddit's website is a bit clunky to use - or I'm on mobile and I have to click past several attempts at them to funnel me into their app. It is a true shame that so much useful information gets trapped within their ecosystem.

> I'm surprised Reddit isn't higher on the list.

It's on two lists.

> Either I'm on a desktop and Reddit's website is a bit clunky to use - or I'm on mobile and I have to click past several attempts at them to funnel me into their app.

I have the old-reddit extension on every device I use. It's my 3rd most essential extension, after uBlock Origin and Kill Sticky.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by freediver »

MrVandemar wrote: post #13

The top-ranked sources really show Kagi's current demographic. It obviously is attractive to programmers and IT professionals. I wonder if they are interested in attracting users with more diverse searching requirements, and if so, how they would be able to actually reach them.

> It obviously is attractive to programmers and IT professionals.

I would say this is a blessing as it allows us to focus on things that matter to tech-savvy users (Kagi founder here).

> I wonder if they are interested in attracting users with more diverse searching requirements,

Yes, we are :)

> if so, how they would be able to actually reach them

Through our family plan [1], most likely. This is how I got my family members on board a paid search product.

I might add that "Kagi for Kids" is the first true attempt at having a search engine made specifically for kids, with a host of parent controls, which was never a thing in the last 25 years for some reason.

We are also seeing more and more users who are not techies (but are tech-savvy) becoming members. This may be followed by non-tech savvy users in the future. I do see the first signs of the age of ad-supported, "free" search, coming to an end [2].

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/family-plan

[2] https://blog.kagi.com/age-pagerank-over

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by fyrn_ »

lolinder wrote: post #21
munk-a wrote: post #19

I'm surprised Reddit isn't higher on the list. Either I'm on a desktop and Reddit's website is a bit clunky to use - or I'm on mobile and I have to click past several attempts at them to funnel me into their app. It is a true shame that so much useful information gets trapped within their ecosystem.

A lot of people actually disagree with you—Reddit is number four on the Raise list and on the Pin list, and every few months there's a thread on HN talking about how the only way to get useful information out of Google is to add "reddit" at the end of the search.

I think they were talking about the raise list, not the block or lower list

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by freediver »

jeffbee wrote: post #18

So, kagi has a couple hundred actives?

Mulitply that by the factor of ~50. Not all users use the feature or if they do, block same domains (our user base is very international).

We plan to launch full stats (including number of members and queries/day) next week. "Domains" is meant to be just one of the tabs on this page that got pushed earlier to prod.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by chocolatkey »

12907835202 wrote: post #4

I've never quite understood the w3schools hate. It can be quite useful. My most used page is this one when I need to jog my memory: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.php It's much better than this one: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_selecto... Or any of the other results on the first page

W3Schools was essential in helping me get to where I am today. Learning HTML and PHP through it was great, my favorite feature being their "Try It Yourself" button, which opens up a sandbox where you can play around with PHP, HTML, CSS, JS etc (note it's not just client-side languages like MDN does). For beginners, this kind of thing is essential, and this was before MDN was good. And even now, I compare MDN vs. a W3Schools page, and the overall design and content is more welcoming for beginners.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by black_puppydog »

munk-a wrote: post #19

I'm surprised Reddit isn't higher on the list. Either I'm on a desktop and Reddit's website is a bit clunky to use - or I'm on mobile and I have to click past several attempts at them to funnel me into their app. It is a true shame that so much useful information gets trapped within their ecosystem.

As siblings have pointed out, reddit is actually popular for raising.

For me, what distinguishes it from a stereotypical "block this please" site like Pinterest is that, clunky as the UI may be, content on reddit is often relevant and well linked up with other pages on the Web.

Compare that with Pinterest which I've taken to describe as "the universal sink of the Web" because it seems to get linked to from everywhere but then it's a dead end with zero non-repost content 100% of the time.

Well actually, come to think of it, Pinterest hasn't figured much in my search results ever since I started using kagi a year or so back, and really it didn't get linked to very much from anywhere but the Google results page... Guess I'm getting my money's worth in one more way then I realized. :D

Kagi is so worth the money!

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