Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects(blog.kagi.com)

107 pointsby treetalker15 hours ago10 comments

Gareth3213 hours 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://(?: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
m-schuetz5 hours 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.
- steve-atx-760015 minutes 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 . Besides blocking, they have ranking adjustment options on this page as well.
- crvdgc4 hours ago
  For what it worth, there's uBlacklist for Google.
  https://ublacklist.github.io/docs/getting-started
- andersmurphy5 hours ago
  Yeah the best feature. Also filters those results from your assistant queries so less slop contaminating your results.
  - MrGreenTea2 hours ago
    What are assistant queries?
    bottdan hour ago
    The Kagi AI stuff
BadBadJellyBean7 hours 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.
- Semaphor7 hours 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)
gherkinnn4 hours ago
Kagi demonstrates what tech could be like if it didn't conspire against its users.
mayneack6 hours ago
This is useful for redirecting x to xcancel
- drcongo3 hours 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.
rkagerer4 hours 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.
jwran hour 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-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.
- gonzalohm24 minutes 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
byzantinegene2 hours ago
too bad search is gradually made obsolete by ai
- kavok39 minutes ago
  AI still uses search engines though.
ginko4 hours ago
I do redirects like that in my browser using Redirector. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
- SockThief4 hours ago
  There is another one: 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.
SoullessSilent4 hours ago
This is useful for redirecting xcancel to x