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A few times recently a highly-ranked Kagi result turned out to be a scam site. (Popups warning that I have a virus, or junk pages full of jumbled fake content, etc). It’s disappointing any time these results appear in Kagi, but even more disappointing is realizing that I have no way to block them.

Each time this happened I hit back to go back to the search results, then looked for a way to report the site… and it’s just not there.

I initially assumed I was just dumb and couldn’t see it, because “of course” a paid search engine would have that feature. But reading through the other feature requests here, I guess it isn’t. And I see how maybe you don’t want to trust other users’ block decisions to affect my search results. But I should certainly be able to block domains from my own results.

I know there is already a block feature. But it’s about 20 clicks/taps to add a custom domain to that, and it’s not worth taking the time to do that when I just want to get to good results and move on with my day. But it would be worth it to click a little “block this domain” link right next to the search result.

Click a result
It’s a malicious site
Click back
Click “block this domain” (or a little icon) next to the search result
Get a prompt to explain/confirm
Say Yes
Carry on with my day, never bothered by that domain again

  • Vlad replied to this.
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    One potential problem is that the shield icon doesn't seem to display on mobile/small screens:

    Clicking/hovering over the shield-looking icon next to the search result will show you information about the site and includes a set of buttons for adjusting the ranking. Doesn't affect what other users see, but will keep them out of your results if you block it there. Does that end up doing what you're looking for?

    truist We indeed have this feature as outlined in the comment above. I wonder what we can do to surface this better?

      One potential problem is that the shield icon doesn't seem to display on mobile/small screens:

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