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Fandom is actually one of the main reasons I switched to Kagi as my primary search engine. Being able to manually down rank or even ban some of Fandom's domains
by yesco 3y ago
Fandom is actually one of the main reasons I switched to Kagi as my primary search engine. Being able to manually down rank or even ban some of Fandom's domains from my search results has resulted in a dramatic quality improvement, something I'm very willing to pay for.
I honestly find it shocking that Google allows Fandom to get away with it's shenanigans all considered. For casual searches, community wikis are the primary repositories for quality results, yet they seemingly put very little effort into actually ensuring they present the correct one.
I'm positive they do a certain degree of curation to search results for News reporting, to fight "misinformation". Why not do this for community wikis as well? It certainly wouldn't require the same level of effort as news, and just changing the rankings of a single domain would have a huge impact to an entire category of searches.
Sometimes I get the feeling that Google cares more about influencing their users than it cares about returning quality search results these days.
- ectospheno 3y agoYou can write ublock rules to block domains from search engine results. Several public lists already exist for this purpose. The pattern is simple should you want to add your own.