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Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

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.

> ... or I'm on mobile and I have to click past several attempts at them to funnel me into their app.

It’s not really less inconvenient in terms of time or screen taps in my experience, but changing the subdomain to “old” will at least skip the app prompts. The day that option dies is a day I put a new 0.0.0.0 entry in my hosts file.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by banana_giraffe »

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.

It won't help the clunky mobile site much, but if you're on iOS there's a Safari plug in called "Sink It for Reddit" that hides the attempts to funnel you into their app.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

arboles wrote: post #60
amelius wrote: post #31

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!

Umm, according to the latest data, user choice is far less competitive than algorithms at stabilizing engagement metrics. Users' behavior speaks louder than what they believe in their little heads.

Can't tell if sarcasm or not.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by zeusk »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #63
arboles wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Umm, according to the latest data, user choice is far less competitive than algorithms at stabilizing engagement metrics. Users' behavior speaks louder than what they believe in their little heads.

Can't tell if sarcasm or not.

He probably works on Google search or Pinterest.

I want least engagement with the search engine; it's a fail if I'm spending time just looking at search page and not the results.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by freediver »

syntaxing wrote: post #51

Can someone share some insight what “Pin” means? I get what block, lower, raise means but pin is a bit confusing to me

Pin means that if a result from that domain would appear anywhere in 50 or so relevant results that Kagi usually surfaces on the first page, it would be 'pinned' to the top of results.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by lamontcg »

belkinpower wrote: post #46
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!

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 was just about out of my free searches on Kagi before I ever realized it could do this. That feature converted me to a paying user (although I've got browser plugins to block domains from Google search, but boosting is something I can't do there).

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by version_five »

12907835202 wrote: post #4

I'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

As others have said, it's t least in part because of the beginner orientation. I'm not a web developer and I found it useful when looking up some html/css stuff for a project years ago. But for example in python I find it infuriating to see geeksforgeeks or whatever at the top of my search results. I want SO or documentation for most stuff and consider the rest spam.

All that to say, I think beginner oriented well SEO'd content is going to be polarizing, which makes Kagi's approach great for everyone, if you want it it's there, if it annoys you, quickly block it

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by GolfPopper »

arboles wrote: post #60
amelius wrote: post #31

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!

Umm, according to the latest data, user choice is far less competitive than algorithms at stabilizing engagement metrics. Users' behavior speaks louder than what they believe in their little heads.

Or perhaps an amoral and unrestrained trillion-dollar paperclip-maximizer is, within certain paramaters, more effective at steering monkey-brains than said brains' resident consciousnesses are.
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