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Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects

186 points by treetalker 6mo ago

BadBadJellyBean 6mo ago
It's great how they constantly add little things to make their product better. This is definitely a useful feature. Giving tools to customize search makes it feel like a product instead of me being the product sold to advertisers.
- Semaphor 6mo ago
  FWIW, this is not new, though. Only the article about it is, I’ve been using it for a long time to redirect reddit links (as I’m not logged in on my phone)
mayneack 6mo ago
This is useful for redirecting x to xcancel
- drcongo 6mo ago
  This reminded me that a couple of years ago I set Kagi up to never show results from x.com at all. Nothing was lost.
m-schuetz 6mo ago
Man, I love Kagi. Two years ago I would never have thought I'd ever pay for a search engine, but the option to block garbage domains like userbenchmark or sites with purely AI generated content is just too good.
- andersmurphy 6mo ago
  Yeah the best feature. Also filters those results from your assistant queries so less slop contaminating your results.
  - MrGreenTea 6mo ago
    What are assistant queries?
    - bottd 6mo ago
      The Kagi AI stuff
- crvdgc 6mo ago
  For what it worth, there's uBlacklist for Google. https://ublacklist.github.io/docs/getting-started https://ublacklist.github.io/docs/getting-started
  - Baljhin 6mo ago
    --and Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, SearXNG, Startpage, Yahoo! JAPAN, Yandex - and Kagi.
- steve-atx-7600 6mo ago
  It always takes me awhile to remember where this setting is buried in their menu. In case it helps someone else: https://kagi.com/settings/user_ranked https://kagi.com/settings/user_ranked . Besides blocking, they have ranking adjustment options on this page as well.
- TonyStr 6mo ago
  Haven't looked for this before now, but this seems to be supported by DuckDuckGo as well. Search result three dots > block this site from all results.
  - _bypa 6mo ago
    It rarely survives closing and reopening Safari on iOS (without clearing cookies), so it's not as valuable.
    - extraduder_ire 6mo ago
      If you go to duckduckgo.com/settings you can generate a URL with all of your saved settings. Loading it will configure all the settings it includes in your browser's local data. Blocked sites are included, I just checked.
SoullessSilent 6mo ago
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ginko 6mo ago
I do redirects like that in my browser using Redirector. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
- SockThief 6mo ago
  There is another one: https://libredirect.github.io/ https://libredirect.github.io/ A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and many other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends. This is a fork of no longer maintained Privacy Redirect. Alternative frontends are fetched automatically, so it mostly works out of the box.
rkagerer 6mo ago
This is so much more useful than the abhorrent practice Google employs of rewriting all its search result links simply to track what you clicked.
gherkinnn 6mo ago
Kagi demonstrates what tech could be like if it didn't conspire against its users.
Gareth321 6mo ago
This is surprisingly awesome. For everyone who wants to paste in the suggested rules, you can use these: ^https://(?:www\.)?reddit\.com|https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com ^https://(?:www\.)?imgur\.com|https://rimgo.bcow.xyz https://rimgo.bcow.xyz ^https://x\.com|https://xcancel.com https://x\.com|https://xcancel.com ^https://bsky\.app|https://witchsky.app https://bsky\.app|https://witchsky.app ^https://www\.youtube\.com|https://skipcut.com https://www\.youtube\.com|https://skipcut.com ^https://www\.npmjs\.com|https://npmx.dev https://www\.npmjs\.com|https://npmx.dev ^https://www\.curseforge\.com|https://legacy.curseforge.com https://www\.curseforge\.com|https://legacy.curseforge.com ^https://www\.goodreads\.com|https://biblioreads.eu.org https://www\.goodreads\.com|https://biblioreads.eu.org ^https://en\.m\.wikipedia\.org|https://en.wikipedia.org https://en\.m\.wikipedia\.org|https://en.wikipedia.org Paste them here: https://kagi.com/settings/redirects https://kagi.com/settings/redirects
- IvanAchlaqullah 6mo ago
  Btw you didn't need one for mobile wikipedia, it's already gone since november. https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/ https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-an...
byzantinegene 6mo ago
too bad search is gradually made obsolete by ai
- kavok 6mo ago
  AI still uses search engines though.
- bastawhiz 6mo ago
  Kagi includes a robust set of AI features also. Internally, my company uses the Kagi search results API to make agents more capable.
- ashton314 6mo ago
  Maybe in your corner of the world but not mine.
jwr 6mo ago
A reminder that Kagi, unfortunately, buys search index data from Russia and has repeatedly refused to stop doing so (https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integration-due-to-the-geopolitical-status-quo/19 https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...). This is unfortunate, because I would love to use Kagi (in fact I was a subscriber before I learned about the above). For some of us, money flowing to Russia and/or search index data coming from Russia are moral issues.
- gonzalohm 6mo ago
  Not sure where you are from but it seems that the world is okay with buying from Russia again. The US is allowing the purchase of Russian oil again. I agree with you, but whatever Kagi is paying is nothing in comparison with governments (that people voted for) sending Russia money
  - pjerem 6mo ago
    The world != the US
  - rainingmonkey 6mo ago
    The EU has received at least 69 shipments of Russian LNG in 2026. At this point, who isn't trading with Russia?
  - reddalo 6mo ago
    I also don't like giving money to Russia, but unfortunately Yandex seems like the last big search engine not to censor a lot of results (I know it won't last forever).
    - gonzalohm 6mo ago
      What kind of results are other engines censoring?
      - reddalo 6mo ago
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jjice 6mo ago
Blocking, lowering, raising, and pinning domains has been one of my favorite Kagi features. Some of my block highlights include pintrest (and all it's other TLDs) and any AI trash articles I find when looking up something programming related. I lower Quora and Medium. I raise good references like docs sites, Wikipedia, ArchWiki, etc. Not only are the stock results better: I also get more control over what I see and how it's presented. Huge fan.
- ericrallen 6mo ago
  Blocking Pinterest and those ad-riddled Stack Overflow clones that were everywhere has been a game changer. Only seeing the `old.reddit.com` domain is also much more pleasant. The search results page no longer feels adversarial.
- Melatonic 6mo ago
  Same. I'm so much more efficient in my personal and work life
whoisrosh 6mo ago
I uninstalled Reddit in protest to API changes, whenever I had to click Reddit links from search result, I was disgusted by their website, slow, bloated and ugly. I don't pay for kagi, so my workaround was -libredirect extension and farside.link website for working instances in Iceraven and helium browser.
atlasagentsuite 6mo ago
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186 points by treetalker 6mo ago

It's great how they constantly add little things to make their product better. This is definitely a useful feature. Giving tools to customize search makes it feel like a product instead of me being the product sold to advertisers.

Semaphor 6mo ago
FWIW, this is not new, though. Only the article about it is, I’ve been using it for a long time to redirect reddit links (as I’m not logged in on my phone)

mayneack 6mo ago

This is useful for redirecting x to xcancel

drcongo 6mo ago
This reminded me that a couple of years ago I set Kagi up to never show results from x.com at all. Nothing was lost.

m-schuetz 6mo ago

Man, I love Kagi. Two years ago I would never have thought I'd ever pay for a search engine, but the option to block garbage domains like userbenchmark or sites with purely AI generated content is just too good.

andersmurphy 6mo ago
Yeah the best feature. Also filters those results from your assistant queries so less slop contaminating your results.
- MrGreenTea 6mo ago
  What are assistant queries?
  - bottd 6mo ago
    The Kagi AI stuff
crvdgc 6mo ago
For what it worth, there's uBlacklist for Google. https://ublacklist.github.io/docs/getting-started https://ublacklist.github.io/docs/getting-started
- Baljhin 6mo ago
  --and Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, SearXNG, Startpage, Yahoo! JAPAN, Yandex - and Kagi.
steve-atx-7600 6mo ago
It always takes me awhile to remember where this setting is buried in their menu. In case it helps someone else: https://kagi.com/settings/user_ranked https://kagi.com/settings/user_ranked . Besides blocking, they have ranking adjustment options on this page as well.
TonyStr 6mo ago
Haven't looked for this before now, but this seems to be supported by DuckDuckGo as well. Search result three dots > block this site from all results.
- _bypa 6mo ago
  It rarely survives closing and reopening Safari on iOS (without clearing cookies), so it's not as valuable.
  - extraduder_ire 6mo ago
    If you go to duckduckgo.com/settings you can generate a URL with all of your saved settings. Loading it will configure all the settings it includes in your browser's local data. Blocked sites are included, I just checked.

SoullessSilent 6mo ago

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ginko 6mo ago

I do redirects like that in my browser using Redirector. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

SockThief 6mo ago
There is another one: https://libredirect.github.io/ https://libredirect.github.io/ A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and many other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends. This is a fork of no longer maintained Privacy Redirect. Alternative frontends are fetched automatically, so it mostly works out of the box.

rkagerer 6mo ago

This is so much more useful than the abhorrent practice Google employs of rewriting all its search result links simply to track what you clicked.

gherkinnn 6mo ago

Kagi demonstrates what tech could be like if it didn't conspire against its users.

Gareth321 6mo ago

This is surprisingly awesome. For everyone who wants to paste in the suggested rules, you can use these: ^https://(?:www\.)?reddit\.com|https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com ^https://(?:www\.)?imgur\.com|https://rimgo.bcow.xyz https://rimgo.bcow.xyz ^https://x\.com|https://xcancel.com https://x\.com|https://xcancel.com ^https://bsky\.app|https://witchsky.app https://bsky\.app|https://witchsky.app ^https://www\.youtube\.com|https://skipcut.com https://www\.youtube\.com|https://skipcut.com ^https://www\.npmjs\.com|https://npmx.dev https://www\.npmjs\.com|https://npmx.dev ^https://www\.curseforge\.com|https://legacy.curseforge.com https://www\.curseforge\.com|https://legacy.curseforge.com ^https://www\.goodreads\.com|https://biblioreads.eu.org https://www\.goodreads\.com|https://biblioreads.eu.org ^https://en\.m\.wikipedia\.org|https://en.wikipedia.org https://en\.m\.wikipedia\.org|https://en.wikipedia.org Paste them here: https://kagi.com/settings/redirects https://kagi.com/settings/redirects

IvanAchlaqullah 6mo ago
Btw you didn't need one for mobile wikipedia, it's already gone since november. https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/ https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-an...

byzantinegene 6mo ago

too bad search is gradually made obsolete by ai

kavok 6mo ago
AI still uses search engines though.
bastawhiz 6mo ago
Kagi includes a robust set of AI features also. Internally, my company uses the Kagi search results API to make agents more capable.
ashton314 6mo ago
Maybe in your corner of the world but not mine.

jwr 6mo ago

A reminder that Kagi, unfortunately, buys search index data from Russia and has repeatedly refused to stop doing so (https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integration-due-to-the-geopolitical-status-quo/19 https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...). This is unfortunate, because I would love to use Kagi (in fact I was a subscriber before I learned about the above). For some of us, money flowing to Russia and/or search index data coming from Russia are moral issues.

gonzalohm 6mo ago
Not sure where you are from but it seems that the world is okay with buying from Russia again. The US is allowing the purchase of Russian oil again. I agree with you, but whatever Kagi is paying is nothing in comparison with governments (that people voted for) sending Russia money
- pjerem 6mo ago
  The world != the US
- rainingmonkey 6mo ago
  The EU has received at least 69 shipments of Russian LNG in 2026. At this point, who isn't trading with Russia?
- reddalo 6mo ago
  I also don't like giving money to Russia, but unfortunately Yandex seems like the last big search engine not to censor a lot of results (I know it won't last forever).
  - gonzalohm 6mo ago
    What kind of results are other engines censoring?
    - reddalo 6mo ago

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jjice 6mo ago

Blocking, lowering, raising, and pinning domains has been one of my favorite Kagi features. Some of my block highlights include pintrest (and all it's other TLDs) and any AI trash articles I find when looking up something programming related. I lower Quora and Medium. I raise good references like docs sites, Wikipedia, ArchWiki, etc. Not only are the stock results better: I also get more control over what I see and how it's presented. Huge fan.

ericrallen 6mo ago
Blocking Pinterest and those ad-riddled Stack Overflow clones that were everywhere has been a game changer. Only seeing the `old.reddit.com` domain is also much more pleasant. The search results page no longer feels adversarial.
Melatonic 6mo ago
Same. I'm so much more efficient in my personal and work life

whoisrosh 6mo ago

I uninstalled Reddit in protest to API changes, whenever I had to click Reddit links from search result, I was disgusted by their website, slow, bloated and ugly. I don't pay for kagi, so my workaround was -libredirect extension and farside.link website for working instances in Iceraven and helium browser.

atlasagentsuite 6mo ago

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