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You can blacklist whole domains (or subdomains) as well as upranking or downranking specific sites. This lets you avoid the seo spam (particularly bad for prog

You can blacklist whole domains (or subdomains) as well as upranking or downranking specific sites. This lets you avoid the seo spam (particularly bad for programming sites). For example. Say I want to know more about python’s built in sum() functions. A google search for “Python sum function” produces results on the first page from: - w3school - GeeksforGeeks - real python - programiz - code academy And only after do I get the official python docs. On Kagi I have blacklisted all of those garbage sites and the official docs at the top result.

coldpie 1y ago
Thank you. Sounds like the search results are not actually much better on Kagi, but the features around search such as blocking domains is where you find the value. That would explain why I didn't see much of a difference when I tried it out without doing any customization.
- _aavaa_ 1y ago
  I don't agree with the distinction you're trying to make. Google also tries to customize your results for you, but does not offer you any control (don't know about ddg). I think of it as the same thing with Kagi, expect I have explicit input into the results. Some of these changes are subjective. E.g. I have blocked all of Pinterest since it just clutters my results, but other people explicitly want Pinterest in their results. (not I don't know who would want the seo'd programming sites, but that's a different matter).
stenius 1y ago
Here's some stats that kagi publishes on how people are using their blocking and a great place to great started with it as well. https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard
SaberTail 1y ago
You can search the official python docs on DDG with !python. So if you search for "!python sum", it takes you right there. They have a lot of other "bangs" that work really well, too: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
- inetknght 1y ago
  Normal users don't want to have to remember magic incantations to not have to sift through malicious "businesses".
  - entuno 1y ago
    Normal users also don't want to have to go through curating their own blacklist of sites to get decent results.
    - inetknght 1y ago
      Sure, but given the shit state that Google is, I argue that normal users would rather have to curate their own blacklist a few times instead of being subjected to (at best) SEO spam or (worse) malicious websites. That's why I use Kagi.
- ndegruchy 1y ago
  You can do that on Kagi, too. You just don't _need_ to.
einarfd 1y ago
I haven't set up blacklist for my kagi account. Searched for "python sum", got a link to the python doc as the first result. So imo. you dont need a blacklist.
Ferret7446 1y ago
Is it worth $10 so you don't have to search the Python docs directly? That seems terribly wasteful (monetarily, computationally), when you could use something like devdocs, among dozens of other options.

coldpie 1y ago

Thank you. Sounds like the search results are not actually much better on Kagi, but the features around search such as blocking domains is where you find the value. That would explain why I didn't see much of a difference when I tried it out without doing any customization.

_aavaa_ 1y ago
I don't agree with the distinction you're trying to make. Google also tries to customize your results for you, but does not offer you any control (don't know about ddg). I think of it as the same thing with Kagi, expect I have explicit input into the results. Some of these changes are subjective. E.g. I have blocked all of Pinterest since it just clutters my results, but other people explicitly want Pinterest in their results. (not I don't know who would want the seo'd programming sites, but that's a different matter).

stenius 1y ago

Here's some stats that kagi publishes on how people are using their blocking and a great place to great started with it as well. https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard

SaberTail 1y ago

You can search the official python docs on DDG with !python. So if you search for "!python sum", it takes you right there. They have a lot of other "bangs" that work really well, too: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

inetknght 1y ago
Normal users don't want to have to remember magic incantations to not have to sift through malicious "businesses".
- entuno 1y ago
  Normal users also don't want to have to go through curating their own blacklist of sites to get decent results.
  - inetknght 1y ago
    Sure, but given the shit state that Google is, I argue that normal users would rather have to curate their own blacklist a few times instead of being subjected to (at best) SEO spam or (worse) malicious websites. That's why I use Kagi.
ndegruchy 1y ago
You can do that on Kagi, too. You just don't _need_ to.

einarfd 1y ago

I haven't set up blacklist for my kagi account. Searched for "python sum", got a link to the python doc as the first result. So imo. you dont need a blacklist.

Ferret7446 1y ago

Is it worth $10 so you don't have to search the Python docs directly? That seems terribly wasteful (monetarily, computationally), when you could use something like devdocs, among dozens of other options.