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I've been vary of using ai to search considering all the spam out there. I think I'd rather, perhaps naively, whitelist wikipedia, reddit, arxiv, some news sources, etc than include everything.

Is there nothing out there that does this? I'm paying for kagi and I can see that it has an api, is that maybe sufficient if configured properly?

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If you use Kagi Assistant, you can pick one of your lenses (i.e. lists of domains to restrict searches to) in chats. Not sure if their API has that as well or some other way to restrict searches. Also not sure if the Assistant (or API) respects blocked domains when searching.

Another reason Kagi is worth paying for.

Yes, the API supports lenses. You can use your account’s Kagi lenses or configure new ones: https://kagi.com/api/docs/openapi/search/search#search/searc...

Same thing with your domain ranks, you can have the API key inherit your account’s existing ranks (blocked, pinned, etc domains) or configure new ones https://kagi.com/api/docs/openapi/search/search#search/searc...

I direct them to search for discussion on fora. There are still legacy sites on niche topics that the bots don't post in. This is particulaly useful for reaching into the past because traditional search doesn't surface anything but new content.

Reddit is full of ai accounts now tho

Yep. Anything, but in particular less popular subreddits, are absolutely infested. Sometimes 80% of the responses I get are bots.

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