alt Hacker NewsKagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects
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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://(?:www\.)?imgur\.com|https://rimgo.bcow.xyz
^https://x\.com|https://xcancel.com
^https://bsky\.app|https://witchsky.app
^https://www\.youtube\.com|https://skipcut.com
^https://www\.npmjs\.com|https://npmx.dev
^https://www\.curseforge\.com|https://legacy.curseforge.com
^https://www\.goodreads\.com|https://biblioreads.eu.org
^https://en\.m\.wikipedia\.org|https://en.wikipedia.org
Paste them here: https://kagi.com/settings/redirects
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.
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.
Kagi demonstrates what tech could be like if it didn't conspire against its users.
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.
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.
I do redirects like that in my browser using Redirector. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
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-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.
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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.