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    Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results

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    270 points lkellar | 11 comments | 17 Oct 24 20:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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    jsheard ◴[17 Oct 24 20:10 UTC] No.41873272[source]▶
    For those who haven't jumped ship to Kagi, there's a uBlacklist feed which strips out most big sites dedicated to AI images, with an optional extra "nuclear" feed which also knocks out sites that aren't strictly dedicated to AI images but do have a very large proportion of them.

    https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

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    EA-3167 ◴[17 Oct 24 20:59 UTC] No.41873730[source]▶
    Still, give Kagi a chance. I don't work for them, I don't have friends who work for them, I'm just a guy who uses Kagi and will never look back. It isn't expensive and it's SO worth it.
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    1. dawnerd ◴[17 Oct 24 21:28 UTC] No.41873999[source]▶
    Switched about ten months ago and it’s been so good I forget it’s even not Google sometimes.
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    2. stavros ◴[17 Oct 24 21:34 UTC] No.41874056[source]▶
    If you forget it's not Google, I don't want to sign up. I want something that reminds me all the time that it's not Google, mainly by its ability to actually find the things I search for.
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    3. worldsayshi ◴[17 Oct 24 21:39 UTC] No.41874099[source]▶
    I suppose what they mean is that it's easy to forget that it isn't Google from ten years ago when Google was good?
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    4. genghisjahn ◴[17 Oct 24 21:40 UTC] No.41874107[source]▶
    Same. I’m so used to it now that when I see a google search page I think “woah, what is this? Oh. Yeah. Bleh”.
    5. mordae ◴[17 Oct 24 21:41 UTC] No.41874110[source]▶
    It's very much not Google and you find things faster. They have 100 free searches for you to try.
    6. dawnerd ◴[17 Oct 24 21:46 UTC] No.41874147{3}[source]▶
    Exactly. Going to real Google now is like ?? How did I use this before?
    7. MOARDONGZPLZ ◴[17 Oct 24 21:51 UTC] No.41874186[source]▶
    The only thing that reminds me it’s not Google is when I search for a place I don’t get a good map that then allows me to route to the place. Still use Google for that.
    8. ajb ◴[17 Oct 24 21:54 UTC] No.41874207[source]▶
    For me there are plusses and minuses. It doesn't push ads, but it doesn't seem quite so good at picking out phrases in the query. So I will search for something and then have to go back and quote the phrases
    9. dghlsakjg ◴[18 Oct 24 14:47 UTC] No.41879931[source]▶
    I'm not sure what they mean. I have mine tuned to the point that I can immediately tell when I accidentally google something because the results are so shockingly bad.

    Kagi is REALLY good at giving you the ability to filter out the type of results you never want to see.

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    10. stavros ◴[18 Oct 24 16:00 UTC] No.41880633{3}[source]▶
    My main problem is that I don't so much have results I never want to see, as I want to be able to get results from blogs and small sites, the articles that are really interesting.

    Google never shows you anything any more from sites that aren't in the top 100 sites by traffic, and many of my searches don't fit that pattern.

    Kagi does better, but there isn't a "downrank all the low quality spam" option.

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    11. fnordsensei ◴[18 Oct 24 16:09 UTC] No.41880720{4}[source]▶
    Small Web is for you: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web