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These days it's often the sites in the results themselves that are either ads or highly SEO-optimized low value sites. You can manage a blacklist and a list of
by prophesi 1y ago
These days it's often the sites in the results themselves that are either ads or highly SEO-optimized low value sites. You can manage a blacklist and a list of sites to promote/demote in the search results. And manage different "lenses" to have different buckets of blacklist/promote/demote settings tailored for what you're researching. And can also be used for their Kagi Assistant when you allow it to perform web searches.
edit: This is detailed in the article, but leaving this here for those like me who first jump to the HN comments
- thesuitonym 1y agoIMO this is really Kagi's killer feature. If I see a poor behaving site (Pinterest, for example), I can easily exclude the domain from every search I ever make. I don't have to carefully craft an enormous search query of all the sites I don't want to be shown. Demoting news sites that have a reputation for promoting bad takes, and prioritizing results from sites that are known to be good. The quick switch to move to reddit based search, or old web results, are also great, but for me, it's the tailoring of my results to what I actually want, and more importantly, what I don't want is what sold me.
- lukan 1y agoAre there some recommended curated lists, that I could use being new to kagi? I don't like pinterest and co. either. (Specific things one likely has to tweak)
- freediver 1y agoYes, start here https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard (logged in)
- jorvi 1y agoFWIW, it's much better to downrank a page than to outright block it. Blocking is for a page you never, ever want to see. I personally dislike Pinterest and TikTok, but sometimes it might be the only source of an image or video. Blocking means you don't get to see that result.
- thesuitonym 1y agoMost of the time I agree with you, and prefer downranking, but I have to take issue with your example of Pinterest, because my experience with Pinterest is that if I'm searching for a specific image, I will always get a thumbnail of exactly what I want from Pinterest, but when I click on it, I'm taken to a page of completely unrelated results. It is beyond frustrating, and specifically blocking Pinterest was one of the primary features that sold me on Kagi.
- rjh29 1y agoNote that the uBlacklist extension also does this - removes custom domains from search results.
- thesuitonym 1y agoBut it doesn't sync across computers.
- xnx 1y agoI have a hard time relating to the perspective that Kagi returns bad results, but at least I can remove them.