Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi

What I gather from this is few if any non-software devs use Kagi<p>8 of the top 10 &quot;raised&quot; sites are software dev sites and with #6 being MDN I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s not just any software devs, is web developers specifically that use Kagi.<p>Am I drawing the wrong conclusion? Does that mean Kagi&#x27;s days are numbered? What would it take for them to get enough non-web-devs that the top 10 raised looked more representative of the average internet user?

Pintrest owns all the top 7 blocked results. Good, they&#x27;ve earned it.<p>I never understood why Google let them destroy Google Image search results.

I love that wiki.archlinux.org is a top-Pinned.<p>I&#x27;m firmly a Debian shop, but I find that the Arch Linux wiki often answers non-distro-specific questions that I have about how to do something on Debian.<p>(Especially since I&#x27;m usually using Xmonad without a lot of the &quot;desktop environment&quot; stuff.)

I&#x27;m not surprised to see w3schools.com up there. I haven&#x27;t come across it recently because of shifts in what I do, but it used to come up so often when I was looking for coding documentation. It was almost always useless.

Two different views for logged-in users and public. I realize that it has a different view from a different non-logged-in browser (or incognito).<p>I stopped wearing T-Shirt swags from companies quite a while back. Recently, I thought of promoting Kagi and wore the T-Shirt they sent at a few meet-ups, office spaces with lots of tech-people and no-one recognize it. A few of them thought, when we talked, if the logo is for a Golfing group&#x2F;community!<p>Personally, I was thinking I’m proudly promoting something akin to ‘Wearing Google T-Shirt in 1999’ but this time, “Humanize the Web.”

When I subscribed to Kagi, my block&#x2F;lower&#x2F;raise&#x2F;pin lists were very highly correlated with these aggregate ones.<p>It makes me think that for Kagi customers, search engine rankings optimize for something other than useful sites such as docs.python.org and cppreference.com

Looks like alternativeto.net wins the most divisive prize, for being on the top boosted list but also heavily banned&#x2F;demoted.<p>Runner up to the NYT

Why is healthline so high on the block&#x2F;lower list? (Excluding Pinterest)<p>IMO I like the fact that they link sources to their claims, which is very rare on the current web. I think of it as a somewhat trustable source of information. Am I wrong?

Not the point of the post, but i’m surprised to see less than a million queries per day. Is that all of Kagi, or just some subset?

What I gather from this the single decision Google could make to improve Google Search is not to give Pinterest preferential treatment as most people hate it (not the site itself, it has its uses, but the way it&#x27;s promoted in Google Image Search results).

I feel like I haven&#x27;t seen a pinterest link for ages, and I use google.

Interesting that TikTok is the 3rd highest on the block list (considering Pinterest links as one). I wonder why since it’s not often that I get it as a search result on Google . Is TikTok showing up as a result common on kagi or is TikTok just that bad?

This is convicing me to try Kagi for a while... search without pintrest would feel good.

Just as I suspected, fandom.com appears on the top &quot;lowered&quot; list.<p>So many games have moved to different wiki sites but because of SEO the Fandom.com wikis still appear near the top of &quot;normal&quot; search results, unfortunately.

How pinterest got this big in the first place is only explainable by corruption&#x2F;kickbacks within Google antispam team.

Is there an opt-in for sharing such <i>analytics&#x2F;telemetry&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;insights</i> (or whatever the euphemism treadmill is at now) -- or did all customers &quot;consent&quot; to this simply by using private settings &quot;used by at least 20 users&quot;?

I was confused why all the blocked results said “reset” until I realized I was logged in and had them all blocked…<p>I don’t recall using this list to populate mine but I think I must have!

Wouldn’t such a statistic cause a feedback loop?

I want to like and pay for Kagi but from australia it feels like it isn&#x27;t behind a CDN.

I guess if you could easily block sites as easily from the image search, too, at least alamy.com and dreamstime.com also would compete for the most blocked domains

I get the most value out of this feature by blocking fandom.com, fextralife.com and pinning quality wikis on gaming&#x2F;nerd shit, fwiw.

Some people seem to be blocking `w3schools.com`. What is the rationale?

Seriouseats in the top pinned results. So dank

Why do people block ny times and Washington Post newspaper?<p>Is it because it is paywall or for political reasons?