Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

kagi.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

331–340 of 502 posts

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

#331

Post by marginalia_nu »

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…

I'm curious, if you're mostly looking for a wikipedia page, why aren't you using wikipedia's search feature?

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

#332

Post by LAC-Tech »

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.

    const boringPeople = [/* omitted */]

    Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.hnuser'))
        .filter(elem => boringPeople.some(person => elem.textContent === person))
        .map(elem => elem.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement)
        .forEach(elem => elem.remove())
This worked to block the actual comment but not the whole thread.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

#333

Post by cyberlurker »

Tenemo wrote: post #276
reaperducer wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How google hasn't figured that out in the past fifteen years is a mystery. It has. Google knows exactly what it's doing. It's just that Google makes money from keeping you searching, not from giving you the right answer.

Let’s dispel with this fiction that Google doesn’t know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing. They're trying to change the internet.

Is this a Rubio quote?

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

#334

Post by deadbunny »

alternatex wrote: post #326
7839284023 wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Firefox on Android only supports a handful of curated add-ons. You can apparently create your own collections or install anything with Firefox Nightly but I've not done this.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

#335

Post by smodo »

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 works well enough for me, can’t say I’ve really looked back since I signed up.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

#336

Post by joshspankit »

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’ll still click on w3schools but it’s not bringing much to the table and usually I’ll end up back at MDN anyway (big respect to the MDN teams).

Given the choice I’d probably block w3schools just so I save those couple seconds a month when I click back and in to MDN.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

#337

Post by joshspankit »

slaughtr wrote: post #108
OJFord wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 expe…

I was worried about the 1000 search limit, and it has so far (since beta) proven not to be a problem. I use Kagi for all my searches on all machines and my phone and average 800 or so a month. I haven’t modified my behavior at all, and consider myself a heavy search engine user. I have a theory that I would actually need to do twice as many searches with Google or DuckDuckGo or whatever, since the SEO spam would forc…

> I have a theory that I would actually need to do twice as many searches with Google or DuckDuckGo or whatever

This is a great point that should really be highlighted more in their marketing. It was obvious once I read it and shows two obvious benefits: 1. There is probably zero issue with fitting in to the 1000 searches per month. 2. It saves time for many of the searches we’re already doing.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

#338

Post by SushiHippie »

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".

https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow/issues/122

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

#339

Post by joshspankit »

freediver wrote: post #211
eloisius wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh really? I just commented about how this misconception made me change my behavior. Wish that was more clear, or that I had higher reading comprehension.

In general, assume that we pass down the savings to the user whenever we can. Redirecting a bang costs us basically nothing, so it does not count as a search. Also reloading the same search within a short time (~2 minutes, for example coming back in browser after clicking through a search result) does not count as an additional search as we served cached results. Another tip: We have decent documentation (that is als…

> In general, assume that we pass down the savings to the user whenever we can.

This is great to hear but it doesn’t really address the point you’re replying to:

> Wish that was more clear

As someone who is just seriously noticing Kagi because of this HN post, I have no brand impression that tells me you’re trying to pass on the savings (most companies don’t) and the marketing material even makes me think you’re targeting a premium price point with healthy margins.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

#340

Post by oktoberpaard »

sundarurfriend wrote: post #286
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.

As a European IT professional and a Kagi subscriber, I get my information from and contribute my knowledge to the same sources as you do. I don't know why I would bother to look something up in my native language when there is much more information available in English, the lingua franca of the (Western) world. I don't even read Wikipedia in my own language, unless the subject is better covered.
Post reply on HN