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Comment by drcongo | Hacker News Reader

This man is surprised that his google results are terrible. I have to assume this is a frog boiling thing and he's only just noticed the water heating up. Having switched to Kagi years ago, I'm immediately horrified by the state of Google if I ever end up on it. It's appalling and has been for a few years now.

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Try those same search terms in Kagi and you'll see Forbes at the top of the results. I use Kagi and like it a lot but you should be aware that most of their results come from Google.

You can block Forbes in Kagi search, but not in Google.

how to get rid of roaches -site:forbes.com -site:usnews.com -site:nredwallet.com -site:usatoday.com -site:businessinsider.com -site:marketwatch.com -site:bankrate.com -site:money.com -site:fool.com

What's the issue with all these websites? Is it simply that you have a distaste for affiliate sites in general?

It’s worth noting that Lars Lofgren’s own affiliate site (the person that wrote this article), hradvice.com, was impacted by a Google update in August, so there might be some personal bias and motive here.

But I’m curious—what exactly are the criticisms you have towards platforms like NerdWallet and Bankrate? Would love to better understand.

Interesting! Presumably I've downranked Forbes at some point over the past few years, I get useful results in Kagi.

It's getting closer to the point where we will compare Google to Kagi like web-browsing without an ad-blocker. It's hell surfing the web with ad-blocking off.

Reading this comment just above your comment is funny:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594450

Lol, guess you can't really escape. One benefit of Kagi is you can block websites from appearing. Maybe website blocking lists will appear similar to ad blocking lists. Maybe Kagi already lets you do this.

Google does a lot of personalization of search results. But if you don't give it your searches, it won't know what you want. So when you come back after switching, it's much worse.

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