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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by slaw »

abtinf wrote: post #105

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…

I don't see any people say Kagi is too expensive, where do you find them? I don't use Kagi as I found it useless. It is only UI for Google search. Yandex and Bing works better than Kagi.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by hairofadog »

Nextgrid wrote: post #164
jrflowers wrote: post #134

It is wholly unsurprising that a website that seems to exist solely to fuck up search results (Pinterest) is at the top of the block list. The existence of it is genuinely mind boggling in a way that’s similar to face tattoos or Toddlers and Tiaras. Why would anyone want that to exist? At all? What is wrong with humanity?

Pinterest is a successful product that provides value to its users (I'm not the target market and I guess most of us aren't either, but there is a segment of people that do get value out of it). I don't believe they have any malicious intent to explicitly go out of their way to ruin image search. I'm sure they don't mind the free SEO but I don't believe there is an explicit effort to mislead search engine crawlers (e…

The thing about Pinterest is that it seems to be offering something that it never delivers. A few years ago I was doing an image search and I was like, fine, I’ll sign up, I just want to see this image I’m looking for so I went through the whole process and they still wouldn’t show me the image I wanted to see. Have you ever had one of those dreams where you’re trying to run forward but you’re not getting anywhere? That’s Pinterest, at least in my experience.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by internetter »

coolliquidcode wrote: post #101
version_five wrote: post #75

I found the right wing media blocks interesting. I wondered if that was in response to getting search spammed by them or some "principal". Because I don't think I've ever seen Fox News or Breitbart in search results anyway. Same comment for CNN and wapo that I see are also there. Maybe I'd dont search current events enough, they all seem like odd things to block to me.

Fox News is the same level of journalism as guardian, verge and nytimes. As well as Wapo and CNN. I guess people are choosing to be in a bubble of the trash they like. Maybe because they don't know the billionaires that own the other media they think they are decent news sources. Other surprising trash to me is people want to see: rtings.com and goodreads.com. I really tried hard with Goodreads and never found good b…

> Fox News is the same level of journalism as guardian, verge and nytimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies

Really?

> I guess people are choosing to be in a bubble of the trash they like. Maybe because they don't know the billionaires that own the other media

https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2017/aug/28/the...

And the NYT is publicly traded (The CEO has an estimated networth of only 10mil)

Verge doesn't really do journalism that makes me worried about who owns it.

> Other surprising trash to me is people want to see: rtings.com and goodreads.com.

rtings does colour profiles of plenty of slightly less popular monitors that no one else does. It's been an invaluable resource for me.

This comment is genuinely nonsensical. I'd think that it's obvious that rich owners tend to push a conservative economic spin to preserve their wealth.

> I really tried hard with Goodreads and never found good book recommendations there.

Most people end up on goodreads from search to see the reviews people left for the book....

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by xbmcuser »

lolinder wrote: post #6

This feature is Kagi's single best innovation in search. It's what makes their results so much better than Google's: where Google's results are usually drowning in garbage websites, Kagi comes built-in with a great set of spam filters, and on top of that you can adapt your own personal list of good and bad domains as you go!

I have been using this with ublock for a long time. It actually makes me wonder if that is the reason I dont have the complains about google search that I read about here

https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by dvh »

karaterobot wrote: post #82

Pinterest 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.

I just remember them gluing strings in how to use MySQL in PHP article.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by silisili »

abtinf wrote: post #105

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…

Quite the glowing review... enough to get me interested.

Do you have any specific examples or reasons you can share that might help force my hand?

I'm definitely tired of Google search, but not sure I'm tired enough to take on another monthly sub just yet.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by Given_47 »

lukas099 wrote: post #153
Modified3019 wrote: post #41

ublacklist works with many search engines. A little bit of very easy effort goes a LONG way to cleaning up your results. https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist And here's two bonus things you need if you make use of youtube Sponsorblock. As it says on the tin, automatically skips sponsor sections. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock Dearrow. An open source and crowdsourced tool replace youtubes stupid fucking clickb…

Followed the Firefox link on DeArrow, and it leads to an "Oops! We can't find that page".

Worked for me:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by GhostWhisperer »

GhostWhisperer wrote: post #218

this page is so galvanising – to see those domains on the top list of blocked domains pushed me to subscribe to kagi, nice hack marketing dep.

feedback:

1. make the homepage simpler, get rid of the dog and the moving clouds 2. this price won't fly on other geographies 3. don't make me 'add credits' to use the api, just accumulate some costs then bill me, once a week or even daily if that helps you sleep at night 4. you opted me into receiving product updates, don't do that, don't make me add you to my junk list, this was going so well, look what you're making me do, ohhhh

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by lolinder »

eviks wrote: post #185
lolinder wrote: post #6

This feature is Kagi's single best innovation in search. It's what makes their results so much better than Google's: where Google's results are usually drowning in garbage websites, Kagi comes built-in with a great set of spam filters, and on top of that you can adapt your own personal list of good and bad domains as you go!

You can exclude garbage on google with a browser plugin (can't boost, though, and Safari)

Yeah, boost and pin are just as important to me. Google inexplicably doesn't show Wikipedia on the first page much of the time anymore, and I can fix that with Pins in Kagi.
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