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Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by jart »

wlesieutre wrote: post #85
zeusk wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pinterest is absolutely the worst; most of the time the linked page doesn't even have what I was looking for.

It has blown my mind for years the extent to which the Google Image Search team let Pinterest completely undermine the usefulness of their product, and they just kept on giving pinterest the top search result spots. It's honestly more useless than the pages with a list of 1000 phone numbers that you get when you try to search for who an unknown number is. Does anyone even work on Google Image Search? Is it run by a b…

I'm honestly surprised by all the Pinterest hate because I don't think I've ever once, not a single time, left clicked a Google Image Search result. It's like drinking from the dead. You just don't do it.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by abtinf »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #77

I 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…

Could this be modified to block comments from a list of usernames too? The last time I looked at HN’s DOM made me sad.

There are some prolific users who… while their comments are of normal quality, trigger a strong desire for me to respond. I’d rather simply not see their comments (and reply trees) at all.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by abtinf »

OJFord wrote: post #38
sockaddr wrote: post #20

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…

I’m a former DDG user and current paying Kagi customer. One critical difference I’ve noticed is that frequently used bangs with DDG, but almost never with Kagi.

I think this is because over a very short period of usage, I applied block/lower/raise/pin to various domains, and now my search results are almost always perfect.

That said, I understand the value of going directly to a site. On that front, Kagi makes it trivial to define new bangs.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by evilduck »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #80
LAC-Tech wrote: post #77

I 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.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

The domains in question lead to guaranteed uninteresting and routine political bickering where each side is compelled to recite their talking points. It has nothing to do with the reporting and everything to do with how people comment on those topics. I'd be guilty of it too if I weren't busy flagging those posts.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by abtinf »

The single biggest deficiency of Kagi is Apple’s exclusive control over the list of selectable default search providers in iOS Safari.

It is infuriating and is the one thing that has caused me to seriously try other browsers on mobile. The problem is, they are all terrible in some small paper cutting ways (including Orion, though that has been rapidly improving).

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by nfriedly »

I find it amusing that reddit managed to make all of the lists!

I personally still find it to be a useful source of information - I wonder if all of their recent drama with third-party apps has led to it earning a place on the negative lists, or if it was there all along.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by droopyEyelids »

wlesieutre wrote: post #85
zeusk wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pinterest is absolutely the worst; most of the time the linked page doesn't even have what I was looking for.

It has blown my mind for years the extent to which the Google Image Search team let Pinterest completely undermine the usefulness of their product, and they just kept on giving pinterest the top search result spots. It's honestly more useless than the pages with a list of 1000 phone numbers that you get when you try to search for who an unknown number is. Does anyone even work on Google Image Search? Is it run by a b…

Could be a link between Pinterest and Google investors

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by Dalewyn »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #80
LAC-Tech wrote: post #77

I 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.

Please tell me you're just memeing or being sarcastic.

Re: Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

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Post by justintoon »

abtinf wrote: post #95

The single biggest deficiency of Kagi is Apple’s exclusive control over the list of selectable default search providers in iOS Safari. It is infuriating and is the one thing that has caused me to seriously try other browsers on mobile. The problem is, they are all terrible in some small paper cutting ways (including Orion, though that has been rapidly improving).

I realize this is probably not the solution you want, but there is an official iOS Safari extension that will intercept all address bar searches and route them to Kagi. I don’t remember how much it costs, and it doesn’t seem to work super well with private browsing, but it’s better than nothing and works well for what it is. Ymmv

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kagi-search-for-safari/id16077...

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