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Try uBlacklist, it's like uBlock, but for search results.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmia...

You can sync the settings and your personal blocklist to either Dropbox or Google Drive. It also has the ability to subscribe to blocklists. Mind, you need to manually turn on search engines and subscribe to lists. The uBlacklist subscriptions setting doesn't have any built-in feeds yet though. :(

edit: THere are some feeds on the uBlacklist site though. https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/subscriptions

edit edit: Found an even better list of feeds. https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter#other-fi...

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This is a feature of Kagi already. You can promote or blacklist domains in your search results.

But I can't do regexes, wildcards or anything like that as far as I can see, like I can in uBlacklist

And it seems like they also have a 1000 domain limit?

Kagi is just the best, it feels like Google did before a decade+ of enshittification and ad tech.

Did anyone notice that Kagi showed as barely better than Google in the article?

Yeah, for the the results of kagi are so much better than anything else, that it makes me wonder how objective can one be measuring search results.

I use google in a clients computer and it’s just horrible.

But it could also be a factor of the customizations I’ve made for my kagi. Ban quick a few paywalls sites, always put Wikipedia articles on top, prefer blogs than stackoverflow stuff…

Even without customization, I did not change anything yet, Kagi provides far superior results to Google.

I just tried it (free account), and it felt underwhelming, not many search results, or particularly interesting ones, for the image and video stuff I searched.

There was little to no spam, though, but not much to look at either. Maybe it might be useful when searching for stuff that usually has high amount of confusing spam, but otherwise not really useful for me...

Kagi is still very weak for searching for videos and images. For those, I still use Google.

Kagi really shines when you are doing a standard search, though, which is what most people do most of the time.

uBlacklist is absolutely excellent: I've been using it for a few years now, with absolutely no problems.

Quick tip: turn on the 'Skip the "Block this site" dialog', and disable 'Hide the "Block this site" links' settings -- they make it much quicker to block spam websites (of which there are many on regular search engines).

Just today I was looking for an extension just to block Quora from search results. (Talk about a useless site that seems to uselessly outrank Wikipedia on google lately — what on earth is Google up to?) I’m thankful I saw your and your parent’s post.

When Quora was new I followed some topics, got to read interesting answers to interesting questions, but then some kind of enshittification happened. I've blocked it in Kagi now.

This is amazing, I was maintaining my own custom solution that did this.

Appreciate you sharing this; I've been searching for something similar for quite some time.

I use uBlacklist with my own blacklists and Google has been pretty usable, it's great.

Does this exist for DDG?

Yes, it works for most search engines.

The addon you linked (on the Firefox version) only requests permissions on google.* sites so I don't think it will work for DDG. Is there a separate extension, or am I misunderstanding something?

uBlacklist has a button to enable other search engines, like DuckDuckGo. Press it!

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