Surprised to not see fandom.com on there. Just copy/paste plus SEO of actual wikis plus so many ads you can't read the content.
Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
It often outranks MDN official docs which these days are very readable, in-depth, with examples, and a simple UI and the only time I click to inappropriately named W3Schools is by accident because it's the top result and I'm expecting MDN and then I click back and that's why I don't like it.
I have similar feelings about baeldung.com. It isn't that the content is inherently bad, but it is super annoying that when I search for a java class the first few results are from baeldung instead of the official javadocs.
How wonderful to differ - I actually love bite sized, "tldr" or baeldung and almost always get what I need. (not to mention that quite often javadocs of many project are just empty or severely lacking... )
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
#73Kudos! But would it be too divulging that other competitors can offer presets to block the mentioned sites?
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
#74I've been a paying Kagi user for about a year and didn't know about this feature! That's amazing, I can finally block all these spam sites completely.
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
#75I found the right wing media blocks interesting. I wondered if that was in response to getting search spammed by them or some "principal". Because I don't think I've ever seen Fox News or Breitbart in search results anyway.
Same comment for CNN and wapo that I see are also there. Maybe I'd dont search current events enough, they all seem like odd things to block to me.
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
#76This 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!
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.
Ah, but then they acquired Doubleclick (or was it the other way around?) and a monopoly was formed.
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#77I 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.co.uk",
"axios.com"
]
Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".titleline > a"))
.filter(elem => boringDomains.some(domain => elem.href.includes(domain)))
.map(elem => elem.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement)
.flatMap(elem => [elem, elem.nextElementSibling, elem.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling])
.forEach(elem => elem.remove())Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
#78I'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
In the 2000s, it was very often egregiously wrong. People remember.
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
#79Earlier 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.
The "in their little heads" gives it away.
Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
#80I 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…
...BBC? Ars Technica? ...KQED and VOA? You're blocking discussion of some of the most reliably factual reporting on the planet.