A way for user to share their Kagi customizations

Vlad

becausebirds What would this look like in terms of UX/UI? What settings would be shared?

becausebirds

Vlad In terms of adopting settings being shared:

Search toggles
Configured lenses
Personalized results site adjustments
Custom bang configurations

Regarding UI/UX, I imagine a splash page upon registration/visit of this special link that would communicate that another Kagi user would like to share their personalization settings with you. And a flow with a few screens (or accept all) allowing you to accept or reject specific customizations.

ZarK

I’d like a way to share redirects or get some good suggestions on popular ones that I can activate without having to write the regex myself (which is annoying on mobile).

A good list to start with could be available in the UI are those from LibRedirect (I guess Reddit alternatives are no longer working): https://libredirect.github.io/

taylorsatula

I was searching for "remove bind9 ubuntu" and it returned "https://webhostinggeeks.com/howto/how-to-uninstall-bind9-on-ubuntu/" which is clear, ad-free, and to-the-point. It is exactly the result I was looking for. When I encounter results like this I wish there was a way to more thoroughly flag that its a quality link besides just using the "Raise" ranking adjustment which I imagine is a small ranking factor.

I am /not/ advocating for a thumbs up style ranking adjustment ala Reddit.

It adds onto the Raise feature by giving the page and potentially the site a heavy raise to everyone if certain standards are met. Maybe using a small text form and having FastGPT review the merit of the claim.

eirk

Perhaps https://kagifeedback.org/d/2101-a-way-for-user-to-share-their-kagi-customizations ?

johen

I am not sure if this would be related to share customizations. What I think OP means is something like, instead of we receiving Ads for our queries, like in Google, we receive like a "Other Kagi Users recommend" section in our search results. Maybe make the recommendation exclusive to ultimate members, so it shouldn't be abused.

Vlad

johen "Other Kagi Users recommend" section sounds like a great idea, because it is likely to be valuable and users would be able to turn it off.

Can you make a separate post explaining how would you expect this to work?

silvenga

Since Kagi already detects basic ads/trackers - I can see that being a good way to filter for abuse (ignore upvotes based on the website model). Kagi also requires accounts, so that could further prevent abuse.

All that said, Google does use "how long people are on each search result" as a metric to rank sites (via the Google Search leak) - and that has produced a whole class of SEO and tends to prioritize larger sites. Really, anytime you create a metric, someone is going to try and game it.

jdoe

I would like it if when I search for news I don't get the most SEO optimized sites, but the ones who are considered most "reliable and unbiased".

And there's multiple institutions out there compiling lists of news organizations based on their bias and factual accuracy.

And after looking at these lists made by watchdog organizations I'm seeing so many news sources I absolutely never see in results. For example, the "Christian Science Monitor" is apparently not a religious cult news source, but highly respected. And there's load of these. Chicago Sun Times, usafacts.org, etc.

I'd love it if I could make sure to bump these to the top of my results. But it's a huge pain to input these manually, and the domain leaderboard is great, but it doesn't fit this use case.

Examples of such media watchdogs:

Ad Fontes

AllSides

MediaBiasFactCheck

Shared community promote/block lists that would let someone (possibly me) publish lists for other kagi users to subscribe to which would automatically promote these long lists of obscure but reliable news sources.

Vlad

Want to review this discussion, makint it sticky. We are looking for MVP of this feature.

Dirk

TisButMe I am a german copywriter and use DeepL because they don´t store my texts or translations. This is very important for me. If you are working with Chat GPT, do they store your customer´s dato?

RoxyRoxyRoxy

Dirk This thread is for discussion of user theme sharing. The privacy policies of LLM providers Kagi uses are laid out here. Hope this helps 🙂

Dirk

Thank you, very useful table 🙂

dps

What if they could be imported/exported as a config file like this?

search_toggles:
  safe_search: true
  personalized_results: true
  instant_results: true
  highlight_keywords: true
  include_related_searches: true
  advanced_filters:
    time_based_results: true
    domain_filtering: true
    content_type_filtering: true

lenses:
  - name: "Dev Research"
    description: "Focus on technical documentation and developer resources"
    filters:
      domains:
        - "github.com"
        - "stackoverflow.com"
        - "dev.to"
      content_types:
        - "documentation"
        - "code"
        - "discussion"
      exclude_domains:
        - "w3schools.com"
    ranking_boost:
      technical_content: 2.0
      recent_content: 1.5
  - name: "Spiritual Growth"
    description: "Christian content and biblical resources"
    filters:
      domains:
        - "biblegateway.com"
        - "biblehub.com"
        - "desiringgod.org"
      content_types:
        - "article"
        - "sermon"
        - "study"
      safe_search: true
  - name: "Natural Health"
    description: "Natural and holistic health information"
    filters:
      domains:
        - "pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov"
        - "greenmedinfo.com"
        - "examine.com"
      content_types:
        - "research"
        - "article"
        - "study"
      keywords_boost:
        - "natural"
        - "holistic"
        - "organic"
site_adjustments:
  appearance:
    theme: "dark"
    font_size: "medium"
    layout: "compact"
    results_per_page: 20
    highlight_color: "#FFD700"
    font_family: "Arial, sans-serif"
    show_thumbnails: true
    animation_speed: "normal"
  domain_weights:
    github.com: 1.5
    stackoverflow.com: 1.3
    arweave.org: 1.8
  content_preferences:
    prefer_technical: true
    prefer_recent: true
    minimum_content_length: 500

custom_bangs:
  development:
    '!ar': "https://arweave.net/search?q={query}"
    '!ao': "https://ao.ooo/search?q={query}"
    '!gh': "https://github.com/search?q={query}"
    '!so': "https://stackoverflow.com/search?q={query}"
  spiritual:
    '!bible': "https://www.biblegateway.com/search/?q={query}"
    '!dg': "https://www.desiringgod.org/search?q={query}"
  health:
    '!pub': "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term={query}"
    '!examine': "https://examine.com/search/?q={query}"

quick_filters:
  time_ranges:
    - "past_24h"
    - "past_week"
    - "past_month"
    - "past_year"
  content_types:
    - "article"
    - "documentation"
    - "discussion"
    - "video"
    - "research"

Flozza

I would love to be able to have adblock style feed lists I can load into Kagi. For example, there are many rubbish listicle sites that supposedly review products are really crappy product aggregation with affiliate links that add very little value (compared to proper review sites that are increasingly hard to find). Given there's so many of these sites, it's impossible to maintain myself, but it'd be great if we could maintain them as a community.