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Unrelated, is it possible to search the internet while ignoring content farms these days? Just trying to find information on any kind of consumer product is in
by drunner 3y ago
Unrelated, is it possible to search the internet while ignoring content farms these days? Just trying to find information on any kind of consumer product is insanely difficult to do these days when there are thousands of "best 10 x" sites in the results.
- HideousKojima 3y agoI've seen a lot of people on here mention Kagi, a paid search engine that supposedly filters out results and makes search useful again etc. but no idea if anyone actually uses it and enjoys it or if they were just astroturfing shills.
- mog_dev 3y agoI've been a happy subscriber since the beginning. People have been talking about Kagi for a while. The devs have released a lot of figures on their blog blog.kagi.com and the feedback website is very active too. kagifeedback.org
- bwb 3y agoIve been using it for around 40 days to test. So far i like it, i do not notice much difference versus google in general. But i also got to bump quality sites in my niche up the listings (and reddit). So far i dig it
- rolisz 3y agoHappy paying user here. Managed to even convert some friends to it.
- dartos 3y agoI like it. It’s a little behind google sometimes like with very breaking news, but for most of my day to day it’s a massive improvement. The also display list articles separately from other sites, which is very refreshing
- babypuncher 3y ago> It’s a little behind google sometimes like with very breaking news I view this as a feature, as I find my mental health improves the less I am tuned in to current events that are not explicitly relevant to my job or hobbies.
- mdavidn 3y agoI’ve been a happy subscriber to Kagi ever since Neeva shut down. Kagi is much faster and yields better results for the kinds of queries I make. The domain filtering really makes a big difference.
- tombert 3y agoI've been using it almost exclusively since February of this year. It's pretty nice to be able to being able selectively bias searches yourself.
- kickdaddy 3y agoHuge Kagi fan. Daily driver for last six months
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- SllX 3y agoKagi lets you exclude websites entirely, so… yes with an asterisk that you have to put some legwork in to fully do so.
- djbusby 3y agoWould be cool if Kagi had a way to share, or to locate others lists.
- pimlottc 3y agoI assume you mean excluding individual websites; though the idea of a search engine ignoring all websites is pretty amusing... (maybe you still get hits from Usenet posts?)
- SllX 3y agoYeah, that’s the legwork you have to do. Honestly it’s probably not much legwork but if filters like this were more prevalent in say Google for example, it would turn into a cat and mouse game very quickly between search engine users and blogspam.
- mysterydip 3y agoYeah, I feel like the reason Kagi works is because google still delivers the majority of results to these sites. If Kagi one day becomes dominant, the filters will cease to work as you said.
- jatins 3y agoUsed the Kagi trial. Even without any custom filters it had much less SEO garbage than Google.
- jamaicahest 3y agoOr just pay the $10/month to Kagi, for search results that aren't garbage.
- endisneigh 3y agoEven if you could block sites the issue fundamentally is that you don’t know what you don’t know. Ironically YouTube is what some use since any video that features a person reviewing the product is at least guaranteed to not be from a bot.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoAI generated content will change that.
- endisneigh 3y agoMaybe, but unlike websites it’s easy to see the “reputation” of a given YouTuber by looking at past videos and the comments at least.
- mysterydip 3y agoFor now, until content farms of chatgpt-style comments and upvotes network together.
- jakobson14 3y agoAdd "reddit" to your query. That's pretty much it.
- layer8 3y agoOr “site:reddit.com” for more accuracy. You can define a search prefix or text replacement for it.
- sabellito 3y agobrave search is pretty good about removing those.
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- marginalia_nu 3y agoThere generally just isn't a lot of organic content to be found for those types of queries. Best hope is reddit or similar enthusiast watering holes, but not every product category has a strong enthusiast community.