Totally valid. For me the killer feature is being able to change the weights for various sites, making it so websites with content that’s not useful to me or I don’t like don’t appear[1], pinning websites that I consider best-of-class for their relevant searches[2], and prioritizing websites I do like, but aren’t always the best answer[3].
They also have a “Lenses” feature that lets you make your own search lens (like I have one for Lemmy-only results), but I’ve not really had much use for those.
I’m pretty sure there are browser extensions that already do this for you on Google. You can do it manually on each search but that’s obviously cumbersome. But browser extensions are basically what you’re describing and still free
Tough to go from free to $10/month without any obvious to me improvements, as much as I’d like to support the cause
Totally valid. For me the killer feature is being able to change the weights for various sites, making it so websites with content that’s not useful to me or I don’t like don’t appear[1], pinning websites that I consider best-of-class for their relevant searches[2], and prioritizing websites I do like, but aren’t always the best answer[3].
They also have a “Lenses” feature that lets you make your own search lens (like I have one for Lemmy-only results), but I’ve not really had much use for those.
e.g. apple.com, facebook, nypost, quora ↩︎
e.g. wikipedia, the ffxiv wiki ↩︎
e.g. opencritic, speedrun.com, cbc, w3schools, github ↩︎
I’m pretty sure there are browser extensions that already do this for you on Google. You can do it manually on each search but that’s obviously cumbersome. But browser extensions are basically what you’re describing and still free
There’s literally not. For blocking, sure, but not changing the behaviours of your search algorithm.
Oh so I’m just imagining this? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmialoiaghdehhbnbhkkgmjanfhe
It literally lets you construct a blacklist so those sites don’t show up in future search results.
This one has been around for over 5 years.
I wonder if you even read my comment? Also chill, there’s no need to condescend over a search engine lmao.
Yeah you’re right. I only read up to the part about blocking sites and got excited to share my knowledge. Sorry.