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Re: How I Use Kagi

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Post by bbbhltz »

TehShrike wrote: post #181
tiagod wrote: post #24

I took a look at the linked block list[0]. There's a lot of junk in it, but I'm also seeing a lot of sites that have, in my opinion, pretty decent content. My approach with Kagi is just to block SEO spam when it shows up in my results, but I don't think good SEO means it's a bad site with no useful results. [0] https://paste.flamedfury.com/flamedfury-kagi-block-list

I had the same reaction – his list includes washingtonpost.com, amazon.com, alternativeto.net, medium.com, twitter.com, msn.com, etc. He dumped his entire blocklist, which must include a bunch of sites that he finds personally annoying. Here is the list of domains owned by the 16 companies discussed in the post that he linked to: https://codeberg.org/bbbhltz/16CompaniesFilters/src/branch/m...

The "16 companies" blocklist is pretty extreme too. I sometimes want to exclude sites from it, but that would be against the spirit of the list.

Re: How I Use Kagi

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Post by FabHK »

7373737373 wrote: post #112
freediver wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kagi founder here. I notice you bring this up consistently in Kagi discussions. A search engine's job is to deliver the best possible results. We evaluate API sources on search quality, not geopolitics. Yandex represents 2% of our costs but contributes meaningfully to search quality - removing it would harm all users while having minimal economic impact. We've used their API since 2019 and evaluate all sources purely…

If you can't judge that funding war criminals is a wrong action, you should reconsider your ability to do so morally Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, startup founders aren't exactly known for putting anything else above money and their ideas, particularly actual human well-being. Consider that you, too, will have to live in the world that you help create, including the consequences of "a mere 2%"

In my estimation, Facebook/Meta and Google/Alphabet both inflict more damage on the world than Kagi. I trust that you judge them equally harshly and do not use them?

Re: How I Use Kagi

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Post by fLaMEd »

tiagod wrote: post #24

I took a look at the linked block list[0]. There's a lot of junk in it, but I'm also seeing a lot of sites that have, in my opinion, pretty decent content. My approach with Kagi is just to block SEO spam when it shows up in my results, but I don't think good SEO means it's a bad site with no useful results. [0] https://paste.flamedfury.com/flamedfury-kagi-block-list

Yo, I'll spend a bit of time splitting the lists up.

Obviously, there are a number of websites in there outside the 16 Companies from the linked article in my post, and the Kagi top blocked domains that I've added myself as I scroll through search results.

I understand that my taste may not be for everybody so will make it clearer in the post and give a bit more options.

Sound good?

Re: How I Use Kagi

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Post by lukan »

lostlogin wrote: post #319
lukan wrote: post #311

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Yes. Sanctions for military goods. Nothing against the civilian population.

So should Russian oil and gas exports be blocked?

The way it is done right now? That russia sells oil to india and EU buys it from there? Not really.

Re: How I Use Kagi

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Post by thesuitonym »

rjh29 wrote: post #258
thesuitonym wrote: post #79

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IMO this is really Kagi's killer feature. If I see a poor behaving site (Pinterest, for example), I can easily exclude the domain from every search I ever make. I don't have to carefully craft an enormous search query of all the sites I don't want to be shown. Demoting news sites that have a reputation for promoting bad takes, and prioritizing results from sites that are known to be good. The quick switch to move to…

Note that the uBlacklist extension also does this - removes custom domains from search results.

But it doesn't sync across computers.

Re: How I Use Kagi

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Post by lostlogin »

lukan wrote: post #334
lostlogin wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So should Russian oil and gas exports be blocked?

The way it is done right now? That russia sells oil to india and EU buys it from there? Not really.

So if not this imperfect way, how do you block the main source of revenue?

The sanctions are hurting Russia, so it’s at least partially effective.

Re: How I Use Kagi

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Post by lukan »

lostlogin wrote: post #337
lukan wrote: post #334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The way it is done right now? That russia sells oil to india and EU buys it from there? Not really.

So if not this imperfect way, how do you block the main source of revenue? The sanctions are hurting Russia, so it’s at least partially effective.

"how do you block the main source of revenue?"

Why should I? How about not mixing up civilian and military targets? Current trajectory is heading straight into total war, I simply would restrain on target military targets.

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