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Comment by pkoird | Hacker News Reader

I would really love for Google to provide advanced search capabilities or filters to superusers who know EXACTLY what they are searching for. I wouldn't even mind paying for it tbh.

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Have you checked out Kagi? It’s exactly what you’re looking for and more. They have a blog post on the front page rn about their integration with Wolfram Alpha.

The more I read about kagi on hn the more it feels like organized shill campaign

We just had our daily stand up and I was asked to downvote you.

Hi!

> integration with Wolfram Alpha

That blog post was about the WA founder joining them, I don't remember reading something about integration.

> "By integrating Wolfram Alpha’s extensive knowledge base and robust algorithms into Kagi’s search platform..."

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-wolfram

I would really love Google to let me ban certain domains like photo banks which feel attacked by Google searches.

I’m not paying Google any money though. And $10 a month is over my budget

Might I suggest the plugin uBlacklist. I use it to block a whole bunch of domains from google search that I don't want to see anymore.

You are an angel!

You don't need to use a separate extension to filter out search results. You can use this tool to generate filters for uBlock Origin: https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results

Is there a cli tool for that? I have over 300 domains in my ublacklist list.

You can try using ChatGPT or a similar tool to apply the same pattern to all domains in your list with a prompt like:

    "Use this pattern:

    example.com##a:has(.b)

    to create separate rules for these domains:

    example.net
    example.org
    ..."

used to be possible around 2011-2012 but worked too well so was obviously removed.

eHow. I have literally never found a single useful tutorial from that site and they come up in just about every Google search.

Quora too.

That is a niche product, Google doesn't want to have niche products for some reason. Google is great at making niche products, but leadership doesn't like them and always shuts them down...

Just Pay Kagi, they already have all of it and it works, it's in production.

Personally, I think they deserve the money, they offered a better paid product and never sold advertisements, which I think is a scummy model.

Google has been A/B testing filters. I had it for a single search before it was gone never to be found again.

Oh why ... it is a good idea.

I guess we should be glad that Google make bad product decisions though, to hurt the company.

That's a niche demand with a low chance of serving general audiences. SGE could be a potentially suitable user interface for this use case but I don't think they will integrate it into their entire stack anytime soon given the technical difficulty...

They used to give users much more control—the product has been deliberately crippled for a long time now.

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