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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by developer93 »

leesalminen wrote: post #145
LeoPanthera wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...BBC? Ars Technica? ...KQED and VOA? You're blocking discussion of some of the most reliably factual reporting on the planet.

Isn't VOA (and BBC for that matter) government owned & funded? That's enough right there for me to doubt their "reliably factual" reporting. It's hardly a political opinion- the owners of these services expect to get some return on their investment. Because they're not in it for the money (they can just create more money basically at will), then why are they in it? Likely to help craft a narrative that suits them.

At least for the bbc, the government isn't directly involved in the editorial. They have to resort to appointing their friends director general & threatening to abolish the licence fee to try to get what they want.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by hobofan »

PhilipRoman wrote: post #271
nine_k wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

w3schools garnered a reputation for stating outright wrong facts. I think they rectified that part, but I think the way they break down information is still far inferior to MDN on basically every topic.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by developer93 »

abtinf wrote: post #92
LAC-Tech wrote: post #77

I actually did a smaller thing for HN. I have client side JS that blocks results from a few domains that seemed to promote low quality discussions and/or irrelevant submissions. const boringDomains = [ "newyorker.com", "nytimes.com", "economist.com", "wired.co.uk", "bbc.com", "aella.substack.com", "hecolumn.substack.com", "wsj.com", "kqed", "voanews.com", "wusa9.com", "noemamag.com", "arstechnica.com", "independent.c…

Could this be modified to block comments from a list of usernames too? The last time I looked at HN’s DOM made me sad. There are some prolific users who… while their comments are of normal quality, trigger a strong desire for me to respond. I’d rather simply not see their comments (and reply trees) at all.

Dunno but at least on Glider client, you can block from the username menu.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by developer93 »

nfriedly wrote: post #96

I find it amusing that reddit managed to make all of the lists! I personally still find it to be a useful source of information - I wonder if all of their recent drama with third-party apps has led to it earning a place on the negative lists, or if it was there all along.

I think it might be more understandable if you could block individual subreddits, I found experience to vary greatly depending on your topic since the moderation isn't uniform.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by mattmanser »

PhilipRoman wrote: post #271
nine_k wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It is better than it was, but I'd still much prefer to see the mdn, it's much better.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by sundarurfriend »

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.

> The top-ranked sources really show Kagi's current demographic. It obviously is attractive to programmers and IT professionals.

And specifically, American programmers and IT professionals.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by ptrrrrrrppr »

mbork_pl wrote: post #223

I might be tempted to use Kagi (especially for my family), but the thing I'm afraid of is the quality of search in non-English (specifically Polish) internet. Anybody knows how does that work?

I started using Kagi specifically because of more accurate results in Polish comparing to other search engine.

A teraz jestem płacącym użytkownikiem, już chyba z pół roku :)

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by account-5 »

As a beginner w3schools.com is likely my first port of call for something that it covers. Easy to navigate and use, and covers a wide range of things. I'm aware of its history but it's never steered me wrong.

MDN I only use if I can't find the information elsewhere. I need ELI5, MDN is harder to understand when trying to grasp a subject, at least for me.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by DrRobinson »

gcanyon wrote: post #118

I've been shouting for years how google should know by now, if there is a relevant wikipedia page, it should be at the top of the results -- not number 2 or 3, number 1. Every time. Likewise IMDB (not that I'm fond of the site, if there were an alternative I'd switch in a heartbeat) -- if I search for "bogart bacall" then the top six results should be IMDB and Wikipedia for The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, and Ke…

Trakt.tv is a good alternative to IMDb btw
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