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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by duskwuff »

crooked-v wrote: post #58
bcoates wrote: post #51

Looks like alternativeto.net wins the most divisive prize, for being on the top boosted list but also heavily banned/demoted. Runner up to the NYT

It's probably got to do with the bizarre design that hides the actual link to a productms website as a small element on the page and makes the most prominent links and buttons go to other things instead.

They're not very good at identifying what's actually an "alternative". By way of example, some of their top alternatives to OwnCloud include Dropbox, MEGA, and Google Drive. (All of which completely miss the point - OwnCloud isn't just a file storage service, and one of its key features is that it's self-hosted.)

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by [deleted] »

beachy wrote: post #12
spooneybarger wrote: post #2

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I found that interesting too. Not a Kagi customer yet but I always feel the need when googling to be able to blacklist SEO spammers, and that would include Pinterest as an image SEO spammer. But blocking political sites you don't agree with? I don't get it, it's not like they are polluting my search results.

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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by stevage »

danpalmer wrote: post #43
waiwai933 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised - simply because I never get Pinterest results on Google. Now admittedly most of my searches aren't the kind where Pinterest is likely to have relevant results, but even then, surely I'd at least see them _sometimes_. But I literally can't remember the last time I saw a Pinterest search result. Unless, as you suggest, they take over Google Images but not text search results? I could believe that I use I…

I only get Pinterest results when I'm searching for something generic enough, and in those cases, why not use an image from Pinterest. I don't really understand the hate.

Pinterest is always a dead end for me. I don't have an account, so I can't actually access anything that the link is taking me to. It's a giant turd in my search results.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by stevage »

0xTJ wrote: post #22

I'm not surprised to see w3schools.com up there. I haven't come across it recently because of shifts in what I do, but it used to come up so often when I was looking for coding documentation. It was almost always useless.

Oh yeah, I always had that plugin that removed it from Google results. What trash.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by viraptor »

beachy wrote: post #12
spooneybarger wrote: post #2

[flagged]

I found that interesting too. Not a Kagi customer yet but I always feel the need when googling to be able to blacklist SEO spammers, and that would include Pinterest as an image SEO spammer. But blocking political sites you don't agree with? I don't get it, it's not like they are polluting my search results.

> blocking political sites you don't agree with?

There's "don't agree with" and there's "website is known for spamming false information". Fox, breibart and daily mail all fall into the second category, whether you agree with their political ideas or not.

Edit: I wanted to link the original "things that cause and prevent cancer" list page, but it's not online anymore unfortunately https://web.archive.org/web/20140807144235/http://kill-or-cu...

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by magicalhippo »

asadotzler wrote: post #38
agnishom wrote: post #31

Some people seem to be blocking `w3schools.com`. What is the rationale?

It's a garbage site and there are far better non-profit web specification and utilization sites like MDN Web Docs. https://developer.mozilla.org/

I've used w3schools a fair bit, but hardly for their web stuff.

I've used it for looking up SQL, XML/XSD/XPath and such when I had some specific question. Found it quite helpful, and still use it as a quick reference every now and then.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by freehorse »

beachy wrote: post #12
spooneybarger wrote: post #2

[flagged]

I found that interesting too. Not a Kagi customer yet but I always feel the need when googling to be able to blacklist SEO spammers, and that would include Pinterest as an image SEO spammer. But blocking political sites you don't agree with? I don't get it, it's not like they are polluting my search results.

They are news sites, not political sites. Maybe some people do not want them in their news searches because they consider them low quality, or for some other reason I guess?

I would def not consider sites like dailymail.co.uk a good source of information.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by scarmig »

agnishom wrote: post #31

Some people seem to be blocking `w3schools.com`. What is the rationale?

This will be controversial, but w3schools isn't bad for the niche it targets today.

It, however, has a long, well-earned reputation from being likely the worst site on the net for a decade, back in the early days. Even if I have a question that I think it would answer well, I still recoil at the thought of clicking a link to it.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by omoikane »

titaphraz wrote: post #19

Pintrest owns all the top 7 blocked results. Good, they've earned it. I never understood why Google let them destroy Google Image search results.

Apparently Pinterest has half a billion users[1], presumably significant number of those appreciate those search results. I am also going to guess that there is little overlap between those 500M users with HN's 5M users[2] or Kagi's 43K users[3].

So while those results-gated-behind-logins might seem annoying to us, we are in the minority.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/463353/pinterest-global-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454140

[3] https://kagi.com/stats

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