Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

Post by PhilipRoman » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 7:43 AM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #138

jsnell wrote: post #54

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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…

I think you miss he point. The usefulness of a per-user block list is not fighting outright spam. The statistical filters, etc, as applied by the search engine, work best here, as you correctly state. The point is to remove certain well-known sites with information about well-known topics, which is unhelpful for the particular user , me. That information is technically not spam, but it's on a wrong level, badly prese…

Post by 5350-uiop-1130 » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 7:46 AM UTC

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.

Post by ajkdhcb2 » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 7:48 AM UTC

dehugger wrote: post #265

ajkdhcb2 wrote: post #246

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Yikes, that thread reflects so badly on Kagi to me. Over a year of people explaining why Monero is needed if you actually cared about user privacy, with no results. Weird claims that it is difficult to implement. Can only conclude that the company doesn't actually care about user privacy

Or, more likely, they didn't want to take on the additional burden of transacting in funny money of dubious worth.

Post by xlbuttplug2 » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 7:51 AM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 7:55 AM UTC

PhilipRoman wrote: post #271

nine_k wrote: post #138

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I think you miss he point. The usefulness of a per-user block list is not fighting outright spam. The statistical filters, etc, as applied by the search engine, work best here, as you correctly state. The point is to remove certain well-known sites with information about well-known topics, which is unhelpful for the particular user , me. That information is technically not spam, but it's on a wrong level, badly prese…

Is w3schools still that bad? I know that it used to be awful in the past, but IIRC they managed to do a complete 180 in this regard. I'm not into webdev but I occasionally check how to use a particular feature on there and it always delivers a pretty good reference.