Dearrow. An open source and crowdsourced tool replace youtubes stupid fucking clickbait title cards, and replaces many titles with better ones. You can contribute!
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.
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.
As siblings have pointed out, reddit is actually popular for raising. For me, what distinguishes it from a stereotypical "block this please" site like Pinterest is that, clunky as the UI may be, content on reddit is often relevant and well linked up with other pages on the Web. Compare that with Pinterest which I've taken to describe as "the universal sink of the Web" because it seems to get linked to from everywhere…
I certainly agree about Pinterest being where data goes to die - and for Reddit I agree that it has an extremely high quality of information, it's just held back by presentation. If I can find the information I'm looking for on a blog I'll usually prefer that but Reddit usually has a good deal of commentary on whatever the topic I'm looking for is.
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
I was indeed talking about the lower list - simply because of the information presentation is so poor. The information itself is usually quite high quality.
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.
> It obviously is attractive to programmers and IT professionals. I would say this is a blessing as it allows us to focus on things that matter to tech-savvy users (Kagi founder here). > I wonder if they are interested in attracting users with more diverse searching requirements, Yes, we are :) > if so, how they would be able to actually reach them Through our family plan [1], most likely. This is how I got my family…
I was hesitant to configure my partner’s devices (family plan) to set as default engine but eventually convinced them and they haven’t even brought it up once since. I assume no news is good news! I would be less hesitant to recommend to other non-tech friends/family if it were easier to configure as default on Safari. Heck, I’d even entertain gifting subscriptions. The quality of results for me has been incredibly reliable. Enjoyable, even. And, I didn’t even take the time to start configuring these kinds of rules. Love this. Great product. Wishing long, lasting success.
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!
Yeah, this is _the_ reason I started using Kagi. The default results aren’t significantly better than Google/Bing/DDG, but being able to block and boost domains is a killer feature.
> 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...
I strongly suspect that if they kill it off at some point we'll have solutions like archive to work around being forced into their UI - even if those solutions are forced to scrap the information out of their web presentation rather than via API calls.
Ok 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 expe…
Kagi doesn't charge you for bangs. (Disclaimer: Happy paying Kagi user here, just FYI)
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!
Pinterest is absolutely the worst; most of the time the linked page doesn't even have what I was looking for.