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Kagi allows users to adjust the ranking [0] of certain domains. I'm not sure if that's shared among all users but it would certainly help. [0] https://blog.kag
by barbazoo 3y ago
Kagi allows users to adjust the ranking [0] of certain domains. I'm not sure if that's shared among all users but it would certainly help.
[0] https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-features https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-features
- mplanchard 3y agoFellow kagi user here. I have been very happy with the service so far. Switched over to it when they announced their new pricing model a little while ago. It is more than worth the cost. Even without tweaking, the quality of results is far higher than what I had gotten used to getting from DDG or DDG with !g. The ability to rank domains is amazing though.
- FergusArgyll 3y agoEvery time I see someone talk about this feature on HN (almost every day) I get jealous, it's such a good idea. When I'm searching (on google) I'm always thinking; when I get Kagi I'm gonna downrank this site, uprank that one etc.
- alabhyajindal 3y agoI'm curious, why haven't you switched to Kagi yet?
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoFor me… I don’t want my search tied to my credit card. I go through lengths to keep my digital and analog domains as separate as possible.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> don’t want my search tied to my credit card Pay with Bitcoin [1]. [1] https://blog.kagi.com/accepting-paypal-bitcoin https://blog.kagi.com/accepting-paypal-bitcoin
- pants2 3y agoBitcoin is such a bad payment method, even with Lightning network, because you need to buy a volatile asset and payment processors typically charge huge fees to receive BTC payments. If Kagi supported USDC I would definitely use it.
- barbazoo 3y agoCould you use a prepaid debit card or is that? And what other search engine do you use and what makes you think they don't know who you are?
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoI primarily use DuckDuckGo go. I use account containers. I use a VPN. I’m not letting perfect be the enemy of good.
- akaralar 3y agoThey don’t keep a record of your searches, so technically your searches aren’t connected to your card.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoHow subtle is the wink supposed to be in their or your statement?
- akaralar 3y agoI didn't mean it in an ironic way if that's what you're referring to. I interpreted your statement to say "I don't want my search history connected to my credit card.", sorry if I misunderstood what you said. If what you mean is you don't believe they are not connected to your account, I can point you to the FAQ entry on their website. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#what-data-does-kagi-collect https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#what-data-does-kagi-...
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoAh, right… Well, if it’s on their website!
- FergusArgyll 3y ago$
- eviks 3y agoGood idea indeed, though you could block some sites (on any search engine) with a browser script
- pants2 3y agoKagi has improved immensely and I no longer ever feel the need to check Google against it. It's a great product that I am more than happy to pay $10/mo I'm so happy that their new pricing scheme has done away with search quotas. Their claim that the average user does 100 searches a month seems absurdly low. I would blow through my 300 search quota in a few days.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoI average about 60/day since the pricing update. Fewer than I expected, but enough to hit the quota in under a week.
- Semaphor 3y agoIt's not shared, but they have a list of most blocked etc. domains: https://kagi.com/stats https://kagi.com/stats
- zeroCalories 3y agoThat's a very good list. As a programmer I wish many of those sites, like geeks for geeks, would disappear forever.
- alias_neo 3y agoThat is an interesting list; I'm not at all surprised to see pinterest holding the top ~10 spots, but things like facebook, instagram and twitter being so high does surprise me; perhaps it's indicative of the type of user they have (I too block those domains). I could take that list, as-is and use it as a block list on my entire network.
- Spivak 3y agoI mean when you look at all the raised and pinned domains it's almost entirely programming related topics so "programmers dislike sites that have terrible browser experiences for unauth'd users" is like the least surprising thing.
- redrove 3y ago@vlad I got 429’d here
- hiddencost 3y agoThat is a brutally small user base given how much I hear about them on HN.
- Semaphor 3y agoIt's a paid search engine, and not a cheap one. Not exactly mass market material ;) and I'd assume the percentage of HN users is rather high, hence a lot of comments from us, here.
- summerlight 3y agoI get the reason why Google does not do domain level filtering due to antitrust concerns, but at least they should be able to adopt this kind of user preference approach. Why aren't they doing this years ago?
- roblh 3y agoAlso a kagi user since they changed their pricing. The results have been decent for me for the most part, except for shopping which I still use google for. I do wish they’d step up their css game though. Maybe it’s just safari on iOS, but I get style problems constantly. The address bar doesn’t behave properly with the cursor if you type in a decently long query, and so often the search results will overflow the container horizontally. It’s a small price to pay for good search results, but stuff like that should be table stakes for a tool like this.
- freediver 3y agoCan you open an issue on kagifeedback.org with details?
- ahoka 3y agoublacklist does this for Google.