That list is so hilarious and so vindicating. It feels great to know so many other people hate alternativeto.net. I wish we had a prominent place to name and shame sites like these.
The ability to (1) block all Pinterest domains in image search and (2) click an image hyperlink and get straight to the file - these two features alone are worth my annual subscription fee to Kagi.
Genuinely. If Kagi removed the ability to filter out trash domains, I'd stop using it. It's the only way to get real and useful results in a post-SEO world.
I can’t remember if Kagi auto blocks it or if I blocked it completely on my first search, but I haven’t seen Pinterest trash in search results on literal years. <3 Kagi.
Pinterest has the honour to lead the leaderboard from #1 tot #7 in the blocked domain list.
https://kagi.com/stats?stat=insights
Fun to look at the remaining sites.
TikTok (hated by HN as we can see on the other thread today; possibly people banning themselves from the rabbit hole)
Anti-news propaganda sites (Fox, Breitbart, Daily Mail, NY Post, and the much less offensive but more sloppy MSN)
Quora (like Pinterest, unusable without an account but shows the logged-in answer to googlebot. Ought to be against the rules but isn't)
Other low quality help sites with good SEO (w3schools, not great but usable in the way that Quora isn't)
"Lowered" (dropdown) has similar sites in a different order. "Raised" has Reddit, Stackoverflow, and HN. Highest raised news is NYT.
Pinterest - the sewer of internet image search
to be fair, yet another useful and interesting tool exploited into unusability.
That's actually kind of impressive.
I would probably get along with the typical Kagi user, many of those are complete pollution with no redeeming qualities.
That list is so hilarious and so vindicating. It feels great to know so many other people hate alternativeto.net. I wish we had a prominent place to name and shame sites like these.
The ability to (1) block all Pinterest domains in image search and (2) click an image hyperlink and get straight to the file - these two features alone are worth my annual subscription fee to Kagi.
Brave search has similar features as well (Goggles, they call it).
Fantastic to block sites that game SEO but don’t actually find what you want (Amazon, eBay, Pinterest, etc)
Genuinely. If Kagi removed the ability to filter out trash domains, I'd stop using it. It's the only way to get real and useful results in a post-SEO world.
> (2) click an image hyperlink and get straight to the file
Does this work with images posted on Reddit, to their service?
I can’t remember if Kagi auto blocks it or if I blocked it completely on my first search, but I haven’t seen Pinterest trash in search results on literal years. <3 Kagi.
This is the most convincing reason to use Kagi I've heard yet.
It's usually the top reason people give when recommending Kagi. I can't imagine search any other way.
Is there literally any reason why Google favours Pinterest so much? It's just seems purely bad for Google.
My favorite news feed overall: news.kagi.com