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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by edoceo »

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.

The hate is because Pinterest is shallow but shows when folk are searching for depth. The engine can't tell and these results are tricksy and false.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by edoceo »

mastercheif wrote: post #56
Brajeshwar wrote: post #46

Two different views for logged-in users and public. I realize that it has a different view from a different non-logged-in browser (or incognito). I stopped wearing T-Shirt swags from companies quite a while back. Recently, I thought of promoting Kagi and wore the T-Shirt they sent at a few meet-ups, office spaces with lots of tech-people and no-one recognize it. A few of them thought, when we talked, if the logo is f…

Such a huge miss not including the name of the company on the shirts. It could be a fitness logo for all anyone knows.

First rule of marking. Say your name, loud & proud! Bragging doesn't take care of itself. Gotta be like the Beastie Boys, say your name 3+ times in every song.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by daveoc64 »

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.

Mostly because if you try and visit the page that the image was supposedly on, it won't actually be there.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by edelbitter »

agnishom wrote: post #31

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

Content that kind of looks like technical docs, but without linking authoritative sources, date when it was last reviewed, software it was verified against etc.

Nowadays with AI slop websites all over the place, plus formerly legitimate newspapers not attributing sources & edits either, this may not seem that special. But w3schools earned their reputation when that was exceptionally rude. Also, straight up wrong all over the place. But that is more of a symptom. And to be fair a lot of the software back then was straight up wrong, too. Tough job documenting the reality of the WWW correctly while IE was around.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by kjs3 »

omoikane wrote: post #70
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:/…

Man I hate to say you're completely right, but you're completely right.

I remember years back being in some social thing where someone was railing on social media and pontificated "absolutely noone wants what Facebook is", and I grudgingly had to retort "you don't want Facebook, but a half a billion people (at the time) obviously do".

Read the room.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by kjs3 »

zonkerdonker wrote: post #52
danpalmer wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's a nightmare for finding the original sources of images. For example, I was looking for a new sink basin and doing some quick image searches for various styles. All the ones I liked were pinterest posts with zero attribution. A reverse image search then just brings up dozens of ripped and reposted copies of that pinterest post, also without attribution. It gets frustrating

I assume with the 'popularity' bias (probably not the right phrase) in the modern internet this is pretty much the future of search. Someone comes up with something cool, posts a pix, and someone else puts it on Twit/Face/Tube/whatever and it gets reposted over and over and over and since the original is some worthless peon as far as the algorithm is concerned you'll never, ever find them.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

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Post by MathMonkeyMan »

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.

It's better than it used to be, but I've long since had muscle memory for appending "mdn" to any webdevy or javascripty search.

I wish geeksforgeeks would die in a fire, no offense to its operators.

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