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Why not try Kagi? Serious question.

amarcheschi 2y ago
Honestly, I do not feel like needing something "more" than what I use right now. I'd say that reddit suffices for (almost) everything I need that I can't find with a simple search on brave search or Google
- dingnuts 2y ago
  Reddit comments are mostly bots shilling ideology or products nowadays though. At least that's the impression I get.
  - amarcheschi 2y ago
    It's still okay for specific niches or local communities imho
- jorvi 2y ago
  Kagi allows you to do things like inject CSS to filter out pre-translated Reddit results (although it is on their radar to make this a default setting). Here's the CSS snippet hiding translations: (technically you could inject it as a userscript but that's a bit more involved on mobile) /* Hide pre-translated webpages. "sri-group" is main result, "__srgi" are sub results. You can append `:not(:has(a[href*="tl=en"]))` to allow English translations. */ :is(div.__srgi, div.sri group._ext_r):has(a[href*="tl="]) { display: none !important; } Although the main draw is being able to uprank, downrank and block sites in your results. They also do things like deprioritizing and labeling AI in image search, and concatenating listicles ("10 best Android note taking apps") under a single header.
  - amarcheschi 2y ago
    Ok the points you made are cool
  - notpushkin 2y ago
    Userstyles are always nice, and if an that’s officially endorsed use that sounds sick! > Although the main draw is being able to uprank, downrank and block sites in your results I think Brave Search has this too now? Not as straightforward – you can only change site rank when you’re on the search page, and only for the domains currently on that page for some reason – even though the adjustments you’ve made will apply to all searches from now on. Oh, and it also only has uprank and block.
Fnoord 2y ago
I'm a paying customer for Kagi, and I like it very much, but I don't use Google because it is part of FAMAG. As European, having a functioning European index is worth a lot more than Kagi. Though Kagi themselves also are building their own index, which is great.
- tensor 2y ago
  Kagi uses Google and Bing so no reason they won't add this new index to the mix, if they can gain access. The more indexes the better!

Honestly, I do not feel like needing something "more" than what I use right now. I'd say that reddit suffices for (almost) everything I need that I can't find with a simple search on brave search or Google

dingnuts 2y ago
Reddit comments are mostly bots shilling ideology or products nowadays though. At least that's the impression I get.
- amarcheschi 2y ago
  It's still okay for specific niches or local communities imho
jorvi 2y ago
Kagi allows you to do things like inject CSS to filter out pre-translated Reddit results (although it is on their radar to make this a default setting). Here's the CSS snippet hiding translations: (technically you could inject it as a userscript but that's a bit more involved on mobile) /* Hide pre-translated webpages. "sri-group" is main result, "__srgi" are sub results. You can append `:not(:has(a[href*="tl=en"]))` to allow English translations. */ :is(div.__srgi, div.sri group._ext_r):has(a[href*="tl="]) { display: none !important; } Although the main draw is being able to uprank, downrank and block sites in your results. They also do things like deprioritizing and labeling AI in image search, and concatenating listicles ("10 best Android note taking apps") under a single header.
- amarcheschi 2y ago
  Ok the points you made are cool
- notpushkin 2y ago
  Userstyles are always nice, and if an that’s officially endorsed use that sounds sick! > Although the main draw is being able to uprank, downrank and block sites in your results I think Brave Search has this too now? Not as straightforward – you can only change site rank when you’re on the search page, and only for the domains currently on that page for some reason – even though the adjustments you’ve made will apply to all searches from now on. Oh, and it also only has uprank and block.

Fnoord 2y ago

I'm a paying customer for Kagi, and I like it very much, but I don't use Google because it is part of FAMAG. As European, having a functioning European index is worth a lot more than Kagi. Though Kagi themselves also are building their own index, which is great.

tensor 2y ago
Kagi uses Google and Bing so no reason they won't add this new index to the mix, if they can gain access. The more indexes the better!