Google: we need to have your personal information because that allows us to provide you with a better experience.
Me: Ok, please block these domains: "pinterest.com, w3schools.com, ..."
Google: Sorry, can't do that!
Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
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#32I wonder why brietbart and Washington post are filtered so much?
It has the "wrong" bias for most of the HN crowd: https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg
To be fair, it is biased, but then so are most outlets one way or the other: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/ratings
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#33This 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!
Didn't Google have this feature like two decades ago (blocks, at least)? It's not quite a search innovation, more like a "caring about your users as a business strategy" innovation.
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#34Interesting yes, but feels more like a measure of their very niche userbase than a reflection of the websites value.
The average human out there is not boosting developer.mozilla.org
Still...I'm thankful that they publish the stats. It's a useful mental reference point if nothing else
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#35I'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
I'm also a fan of the CSS selectors page, but it's an exception. Especially for JS stuff, MDN is usually better.
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#36I'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.
Following the API blocking earlier this year, my fear is that the half-life of old.reddit's existence is getting ever so small...
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#37Definitely the best feature of Kagi! I sometimes wish there was some way to slightly adjust how this works. As I also have Wikipedia on raised priority, I'd still like some official product/company/etc. website to rank higher than the Wikipedia article of it.
Also, a custom priority ranking among the raised importance domains would be nice.
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#38Ok wow, seeing these lists might have just made a customer out of me. I’ve been vaguely aware of Kagi and know the general premise but this made it real.
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 expensive - so should (or at least could) come down as more people adopt it, driving further adoption from relative cheapskates like me?
It seems great, but I use DDG 'bangs' (which are also a Kagi feature) loads of times a day, rather than going directly to websites - especially !w & !wikt, !arch & !aur & !archpackages only slightly less - I'd blow through the monthly limit in no time on that alone. (Which also seems a bit unfair, they're just redirects, not using index, there's an argument they shouldn't be included? I suppose if you're so motivated you can work around by using Firefox's feature for it instead of search engine anyway.)
Edit: oh wait, I just found in the FAQ that 'bangs' actually aren't counted as searches. I may have to trial it, see how many searches I actually use how quickly. (And how reasonable the 1.5ç overage seems in my usage.)
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#39This 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!
Didn't Google have this feature like two decades ago (blocks, at least)? It's not quite a search innovation, more like a "caring about your users as a business strategy" innovation.
They did. And w3schools was in my list back then.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Clearly not, they think it's clunky and desktop and too annoying on mobile, (I agree but put up with it often) they're not saying they want more of it.