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by eitland 2y ago
Go check my history. Send me a mail and I'll send a photo of the fields and the wind breaks here that you can geolocate. I am definitely not a bot. I am however extremely fed up with Google. And equally thankful that I have found somet
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by eitland 2y ago
Because that is what most of us prefer? Or at least I thought so? But with Kagi you can always lower github results if you want to. Or boost other sites that you prefer.
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by eitland 2y ago
Well, don't use it then. I am happy for alternatives, otherwise I guess Kagi wouldn't improve so fast in areas I care about.
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by eitland 2y ago
If anything, Kagi has proven that Googles "SEO ruined it" argument isn't valid. In the beginning, Kagi was mostly just API calls to Google and Bing AFAIK. Their results were still better for some reason, probably because they
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by eitland 2y ago
Kagi is worth the price every month, unlike a number of other things I have supported it is not an investment for me in the hope that it will one day be worth it but rather a service that I pay a small sum for which in turns removes lots of
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by eitland 2y ago
I see your point. I was not always this well paid. Did you try blocking the problematic sites and if it didn't work, did you file support requests?
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by eitland 2y ago
There is a seperate "lens" (think like "images", "videos" and "news" in Google, only there are more and you can create your own) for "Small Web" which only includes what they describe as &qu
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by eitland 2y ago
I am all for Kagi keeping that feature. If for nothing else then to rub it in the face of every googler who have argued that it was impossible. And if you use it I am happy, that gives Kagi an incentive to keep it around. I'm just sayi
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by eitland 2y ago
Don't know what I am doing wrong but except the first few times I really didn't get good results with Kagi. It might be that I rely a lot on precise queries and doublequoted words and also cannot get myself to use the conversation
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by eitland 2y ago
Google was also technically better when it released and importantly there was no way to buy ones way to the top. Back then I think people mostly agreed that the results that ranked on top in Google generally were there because of criteria t
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by eitland 2y ago
Exactly like Google since 2011 +/- 2 years (the so-so search results part) and Google the last few years (the littered with garbage part)? I have used Google since probably 2001-2002 sometime and a number of other search engines before
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by eitland 2y ago
Now you have a chance. Kagi is there. I made my decision two years ago and I would probably do it even if it was just on par with Google, to support competition and to avoid supporting Google. But in hindsight it is just exeptionally much b
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by eitland 2y ago
Thats exactly what I am talking about. Kagi is kind of like Google in 2009, seriously good coverage, good ranking ... but also: - more modern - more features (summarizer, bangs like in DDG, FastGPT and probably a few I forgot) - blocklists
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by eitland 2y ago
Would be interesting to see if any relavant authorities could be interested now that this is out? I understand some of this is a direct contradiction of things they have said in court previously?
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by eitland 2y ago
As a user of Kagi and search.marginalia.nu I can tell you: Quite a bit. So much that now that I have what "everyone" asked Google for for years - that is blacklists - I hardly use them. Why? Because with Kagi I get much better res
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by eitland 2y ago
For me it was: - adding sponsored links (amazon I think) in an OS upgrade on my flagship phone - camera (and other apps but with camera it is most annoying) sometimes taking way to long to open, as if there was one or more network calls inv
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by eitland 2y ago
It was discussed a number of times here on HN a couple of years ago and the author is an active participant here. Please note that it isn't a very large index, but it shows what one single person can do today on spare time and until re
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by eitland 2y ago
Not only that but even for topics not abused to death by SEO, Google still manages to include absolutely irrelevant pages. It seems like they have had some system for years already which includes an absolutely unhealthy amount of pages that
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by eitland 2y ago
Try https://search.marginalia.nu Become happy.
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by eitland 2y ago
As far as my observations go Google search results has been manipulated by something AI like for a decade already and part of the reason why I pay for another search engine is to get away from that. No, I am not talking only about external
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by eitland 2y ago
For anyone like me who are about to start trying to figure out what Muddy is, it seems to be this thing: - Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40309342 - homepage: https://www.feelmuddy.com/
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by eitland 2y ago
Insufficient evidence means you are free to go.
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by eitland 2y ago
I went to Kagi. Only better quality alternative I found that has the same coverage and is available here. FWIW for my purposes Marginalia is also a lot better quality (less annoying, more likely to give me the results I want - if it has the
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by eitland 2y ago
In Norway we have two different "not guilty" outcomes: - "frifunnet på grunn av bevisets stilling" (~"acquitted because of the situation with the evidence" my best translation at 00:02 in the night) which I thi
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by eitland 2y ago
Even when matt_cutts used to be here it was still impossible to get him (or anyone else) to care about search results including lots of results I never asked for. Not low quality pages that spammed high ranking words but pages that simply
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by eitland 2y ago
You are totally correct I think. This isn't about what is possible. It is about Google not wanting to say goodbye to the sweet dollars from spammy sites. Otherwise making the probably number one requested feature, a personal block list
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by eitland 2y ago
Most of the problems I complain about are not related to SEO spam but to Google including sites that does not contain my search terms anywhere despite my use of doublequotes and the verbatim operator. As for SEO spam a huge chunk of it woul
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by eitland 3y ago
The thing is cows eat metal while grazing freely too. I have a background in farming and there has been cases of cows ingesting rather weird things absolutely on their own. One case I remember hearing about was a cow eating a pack of leftov
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by eitland 3y ago
I think it varies a lot fromncow to cow (and from farm to farm). I grew up on a (small) farm and we liked them and were fond of them and they seemed to be the same. Yes, they were absolutely overjoyed when I took them to the pasture at the
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by eitland 3y ago
FWIW it has actually become better the last few years: Now you can at least just stick to React and TypeScript and bundle it using Webpack and have months of relative sanity between each time you have to throw something out and replace it

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