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One feature that I really wish more search engines would have is the ability to blocklist certain domains, particularly ones whose results are never relevant or helpful to the query itself (Pinterest, Quora, etc). It could even be used as a factor in the site’s search rankings.


I think kagi does that, I use while was in beta, you also can assign a priority to sites, like normal or boost. Kagi is a paid service and doesn’t shows you ads.


It does. This is one of the best features.


Yeah, each user can apply their own weight per domain: block, lower, normal, higher, pin.

It's really useful!


> It could even be used as a factor in the site’s search rankings.

They did that for a while without considering the obvious downside - the incentive to mass blacklist your competitors.


Have a look at Brave Goggles: https://search.brave.com/goggles


Back in the day it was just w3schools i wished I could block. I still do, but now there are countless others as well. Quora in particular.




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