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Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects

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This is surprisingly awesome. For everyone who wants to paste in the suggested rules, you can use these:

^https://(?:www\.)?reddit\.com|https://old.reddit.com

^https://(?:www\.)?imgur\.com|https://rimgo.bcow.xyz

^https://x\.com|https://xcancel.com

^https://bsky\.app|https://witchsky.app

^https://www\.youtube\.com|https://skipcut.com

^https://www\.npmjs\.com|https://npmx.dev

^https://www\.curseforge\.com|https://legacy.curseforge.com

^https://www\.goodreads\.com|https://biblioreads.eu.org

^https://en\.m\.wikipedia\.org|https://en.wikipedia.org

Paste them here: https://kagi.com/settings/redirects

Btw you didn't need one for mobile wikipedia, it's already gone since november.

https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-an...

Blocking, lowering, raising, and pinning domains has been one of my favorite Kagi features. Some of my block highlights include pintrest (and all it's other TLDs) and any AI trash articles I find when looking up something programming related. I lower Quora and Medium. I raise good references like docs sites, Wikipedia, ArchWiki, etc.

Not only are the stock results better: I also get more control over what I see and how it's presented. Huge fan.

Blocking Pinterest and those ad-riddled Stack Overflow clones that were everywhere has been a game changer.

Only seeing the `old.reddit.com` domain is also much more pleasant.

The search results page no longer feels adversarial.

Same. I'm so much more efficient in my personal and work life

Man, I love Kagi. Two years ago I would never have thought I'd ever pay for a search engine, but the option to block garbage domains like userbenchmark or sites with purely AI generated content is just too good.

For what it worth, there's uBlacklist for Google.

https://ublacklist.github.io/docs/getting-started

--and Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, SearXNG, Startpage, Yahoo! JAPAN, Yandex - and Kagi.

Haven't looked for this before now, but this seems to be supported by DuckDuckGo as well. Search result three dots > block this site from all results.

It rarely survives closing and reopening Safari on iOS (without clearing cookies), so it's not as valuable.

If you go to duckduckgo.com/settings you can generate a URL with all of your saved settings. Loading it will configure all the settings it includes in your browser's local data. Blocked sites are included, I just checked.

It always takes me awhile to remember where this setting is buried in their menu. In case it helps someone else: https://kagi.com/settings/user_ranked . Besides blocking, they have ranking adjustment options on this page as well.

Yeah the best feature. Also filters those results from your assistant queries so less slop contaminating your results.

What are assistant queries?

The Kagi AI stuff

It's great how they constantly add little things to make their product better. This is definitely a useful feature. Giving tools to customize search makes it feel like a product instead of me being the product sold to advertisers.

FWIW, this is not new, though. Only the article about it is, I’ve been using it for a long time to redirect reddit links (as I’m not logged in on my phone)

Kagi demonstrates what tech could be like if it didn't conspire against its users.

I do redirects like that in my browser using Redirector. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

There is another one: https://libredirect.github.io/ A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and many other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends. This is a fork of no longer maintained Privacy Redirect. Alternative frontends are fetched automatically, so it mostly works out of the box.

This is so much more useful than the abhorrent practice Google employs of rewriting all its search result links simply to track what you clicked.

This is useful for redirecting x to xcancel

This reminded me that a couple of years ago I set Kagi up to never show results from x.com at all. Nothing was lost.

A reminder that Kagi, unfortunately, buys search index data from Russia and has repeatedly refused to stop doing so (https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...).

This is unfortunate, because I would love to use Kagi (in fact I was a subscriber before I learned about the above). For some of us, money flowing to Russia and/or search index data coming from Russia are moral issues.

Not sure where you are from but it seems that the world is okay with buying from Russia again.

The US is allowing the purchase of Russian oil again.

I agree with you, but whatever Kagi is paying is nothing in comparison with governments (that people voted for) sending Russia money

I also don't like giving money to Russia, but unfortunately Yandex seems like the last big search engine not to censor a lot of results (I know it won't last forever).

What kind of results are other engines censoring?

Piracy websites, adult content, etc.

Also, Yandex image reverse search seems way more unfiltered than Google's counterpart.

The EU has received at least 69 shipments of Russian LNG in 2026. At this point, who isn't trading with Russia?

The world might be, I am not.

But your first sentence is interesting: this should not depend on where someone is from. I think it's rather sad that it actually does depend on it in practice: if bombs are dropped on your head, you take things seriously, if bombs are dropped on your neighbors' heads', somewhat less so, and if you're half a planet away, let's do business!

I make my own choices so that I can sleep better. I know this isn't popular. The usual approach is either whataboutism ("but what about X which is worse?") or doesntmatterism ("the thing you care about doesn't matter in the Large Scale of Things"). If you read the replies in this thread, almost all of them can be classified into one of those two stances. Importantly, each stance leads to doing nothing.

I don't subscribe to either of those ideologies. I don't have all the answers, but I do not believe that doing nothing is the right answer.

The world != the US

They also use Google (USA) index. The president of USA is problematic for many reasons but lately he has been threatening war crimes and genocide.

Buy Russa is the only bad country in the world.

I uninstalled Reddit in protest to API changes, whenever I had to click Reddit links from search result, I was disgusted by their website, slow, bloated and ugly. I don't pay for kagi, so my workaround was -libredirect extension and farside.link website for working instances in Iceraven and helium browser.

too bad search is gradually made obsolete by ai

Kagi includes a robust set of AI features also. Internally, my company uses the Kagi search results API to make agents more capable.

AI still uses search engines though.

Maybe in your corner of the world but not mine.

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