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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by yard2010 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #249
esafak wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it does not. They are free to create adjacent products to boost revenue as long as they want without debasing existing ones.

And the oxygen in the room you're in is free to concentrate in a single corner of it, making air in the rest of the room unbreathable. Both are technically possible, but so extremely unlikely, that you can rely on them not happening.

My ML prof in university used this as an example for something that could happen but is highly unlikely. Each particle of oxygen can be in either half of the room so it's like 1/2 to the power of the number of particles (avogardo?) chance that all the particles are in one half suffocating the ppl in the other half. He was such a great guy.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by pzmarzly »

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?

It has a quick region switcher like DDG (a must-have for me), and the results are way better than DDG. Give it a try!

I just did a Google vs Kagi vs DDG test on "grzyby marynowane" (pickled mushrooms, usually pickled champignons, a common snack on Polish family gatherings).

Google: Starts with recipes, then there is Allegro ("Polish Amazon") where you can buy jars of them, then Google page ends (10 results/page).

Kagi: starts the same, but there is more (20?) results/page. It continues with some podcast episode about pickled mushrooms on Soundcloud, a Wikipedia page, some more recipes in Polish and English and finally a Pinterest page (:rage:).

DuckDuckGo: first page is just recipes. I decided to give it a bigger chance, so I checked out a second page. There you have pretty unrelated articles like "where to pick wild mushrooms" and an Allegro link in between.

However, as happy Kagi user I still have to note that they are using Apple Maps for maps/POI search. As you well know, they are quite useless to us compared to Google Maps, so I keep using !gm bang to get redirected. Bangs work almost like DDG, the only difference is that they must be at beginning or end of your search (DDG lets you put it in between words too).

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by yosito »

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!

This is the feature that I originally started using Kagi for, but I wouldn't say it's the best innovation. Their default search results are already dramatically better than Google's, and their AI tools which can summarize individual results or give you a quick answer for your question based on the first page of results are way more innovative. All of those features combined and their subscription-based business model make Kagi by far the most innovative player in search at the moment.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by _dain_ »

Nextgrid wrote: post #155
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.

Kagi has another feature that can rewrite search results' URLs based on regexes: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html . I successfully use it to automatically link to Old Reddit. I guess it can also be used to rewrite user-hostile websites' URLs such as YouTube/Twitter/etc to less hostile frontends such as Invidious or Nitter.

This is cool but imo it makes more sense to have URL redirection as a browser extension. That way all twitter links resolve to nitter, not just ones from a search engine. I use this one https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by alternatex »

7839284023 wrote: post #237
scarmig wrote: post #33

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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.

Use this: " uBlacklist is a Google Search filter for Chrome, Firefox and Safari. " https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs

Interestingly not supported on Firefox Android. It's the first time I come across an add-on that doesn't work on both.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by slaw »

JopV wrote: post #313
slaw wrote: post #280

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I think porn sites are already filtered by Google. Kagi doesn't have it's own search, it is just layer over Google search.

Kagi does have its own search index of niche sites, they even have an API for it. This is combined with Google results; they used to combine with Bing as well but stopped due to Microsoft charging too much money. Very different from DuckDuckGo and Startpage which are still just a Bing proxy and a Google proxy respectively.

You are correct. Kagi is more than a Google proxy.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by deely3 »

cuteboy19 wrote: post #129
thayne wrote: post #14

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I have similar feelings about baeldung.com. It isn't that the content is inherently bad, but it is super annoying that when I search for a java class the first few results are from baeldung instead of the official javadocs.

I think the java official docs are rarely explanatory, they are just plain description with a lot of fluff and useless information

Yeah. Search for class, open official docs, read very short description. And still have absolutely zero idea is where this class is used, and how it should be created, and what alternatives.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by zarzavat »

mattmanser wrote: post #285
PhilipRoman wrote: post #271

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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.

I can see a certain kind of absolute beginner enjoying w3schools more than MDN, it’s a little less intimidating.

When you’re first learning a subject you often want simple lies more than complicated truths.

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