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Funnily enough, deleting all of my raise/pin/lower/block filters dramatically improved the quality of my search results. Enjoying Kagi a lot more now.

jjtheblunt 2y ago
Excellent
pbronez 2y ago
Haha that’s pretty interesting. I only have a very few of these adjustments configured. Mostly I boost sites that I subscribe to. For example, I use this to put Encyclopedia Brittanica results above Wikipedia when the former has a matching article. Similarly, I prefer all3dp results for 3d printing searches.
__jonas 2y ago
Huh, how come? That would be a big selling point for Kagi for me, getting rid of w3schools, "geeksforgeeks" etc. and have things like MDN pushed to the top without having to specify it in the search query.
- rustcleaner 2y ago
  Yes I like that. Let's go further: What Kagi needs is to use AI to figure out what domains are full of 'commercial' activity (buy/cart buttons, ads, telemetry, SEO, login-walls, etc), give those domains a 'commercial' score from 0 to 1, and then when the user slides the Kagi® Commercial Control Slider™ down, nothing with a commelcial score above that point shows up. If the user slides it to zero, the kind of sites which should be the supermajority of results should be the non-commercial non-monetizeable geocities-tier passion project sites built by, and forums frequented by, obsessed autists. It's the only way to fix search: designs which are detectable attempts at monetization should be nerf-able by the user. A new search game must be set up where seeking money kills your site rankings in search. I only care about sites where the webmaster is paying and working to tell me something he cares about, for free, because he is obsessed. No I don't want to buy your stupid product/service, I don't have money to spend and spending it on anything except survival and advancement is counter to my strategic interests. I want autist site and forum results, I do not want marketing-driven money making results... period. If the site makes money, it prima facie doesn't have my interests at heart. This heuristic works really well for me.
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jjtheblunt 2y ago

Excellent

pbronez 2y ago

Haha that’s pretty interesting. I only have a very few of these adjustments configured. Mostly I boost sites that I subscribe to. For example, I use this to put Encyclopedia Brittanica results above Wikipedia when the former has a matching article. Similarly, I prefer all3dp results for 3d printing searches.

__jonas 2y ago

Huh, how come? That would be a big selling point for Kagi for me, getting rid of w3schools, "geeksforgeeks" etc. and have things like MDN pushed to the top without having to specify it in the search query.

rustcleaner 2y ago
Yes I like that. Let's go further: What Kagi needs is to use AI to figure out what domains are full of 'commercial' activity (buy/cart buttons, ads, telemetry, SEO, login-walls, etc), give those domains a 'commercial' score from 0 to 1, and then when the user slides the Kagi® Commercial Control Slider™ down, nothing with a commelcial score above that point shows up. If the user slides it to zero, the kind of sites which should be the supermajority of results should be the non-commercial non-monetizeable geocities-tier passion project sites built by, and forums frequented by, obsessed autists. It's the only way to fix search: designs which are detectable attempts at monetization should be nerf-able by the user. A new search game must be set up where seeking money kills your site rankings in search. I only care about sites where the webmaster is paying and working to tell me something he cares about, for free, because he is obsessed. No I don't want to buy your stupid product/service, I don't have money to spend and spending it on anything except survival and advancement is counter to my strategic interests. I want autist site and forum results, I do not want marketing-driven money making results... period. If the site makes money, it prima facie doesn't have my interests at heart. This heuristic works really well for me.
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