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Re:Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now... by jonpurdy on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @11:28AM (#41058066)
FYI, Kagi lets you do this and personalize it as you desire. They even share aggregated stats※ about which domains users choose to block/lower. (Mine generally match these stats.)

※ - https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard&k=-2

Re:Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now... by WarOnPrivacy on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @12:36PM (#41058820)
> Kagi lets you do this and personalize it as you desire.

Kagi shill here. Are they finally applying filters and operands to image searches?

Asking because it was a tough year seeing Pinterest as top filter choice and top result in images (when set as filter=block).

(edit: I just tried searching->image: beautiful quilt patterns. I didn't spot any Pinterest results!)

I have never understood why DDG, etc steadfastly refuse to obey operands in image searches. Most days. Every blue moon operands seem to work. I think.

sidebar: Yesterday I saw Yandex obey quotes in a web search. It was the 1st time I've seen that.

Re:Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now... by hugh_kagi on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @01:38PM (#41059600)
> Are they finally applying filters and operands to image searches?

That was a bug, apologies. It should be fixed now.

Re:Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now... by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday July 25, 2024 @09:49AM (#41068672)
I sincerely appreciate the diligence. I really did see Pinterest results over a longish span. I may well have only noted their presence and not their absence - skewing my perspective.

Overall, my experience is very positive. I'm on many PCs throughout the day and I miss Kagi when it isn't there.

Re:Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now... by elashri on Thursday July 25, 2024 @11:19AM (#41069713)
Pinterest serves pages in many domains (different TLDs). It is better to use a regex to block them.
Re:Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now... by WarOnPrivacy on Friday July 26, 2024 @09:56AM (#41078706)
I would if Kagi could. I blocked them all manually.
Re:Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now... by elashri on Friday July 26, 2024 @09:06PM (#41083749)
Kagi doesn't provide it natively because of performance issues. They contributed to ublacklist to add kagi search. You can use it with regex and matching rules

> If you need advanced blocking features, such as specifying rules by match patterns (e.g., ://.example.com/*) or by regular expressions (e.g., /example\.(net|org)/), the uBlacklist browser extension includes support for Kagi Search.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize...

Re:Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now... by WarOnPrivacy on Saturday July 27, 2024 @12:57PM (#41087835)
That's interesting. I'll dig it up. Thank you.
Re:Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now... by eliasdaler on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:01AM (#41067586)
You can also do this for free with uBlackList: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

This has greatly enhanced my Google experience - easy to ban content farms, AI-generator websites from appearing in Google Images etc.