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Vlad I'm not an engineer so I don't know the level of performance impact an increased limit can have but the adjusting of websites you can make on Kagi is arguably one of it's major selling points on why someone would want to pay for Kagi in the first place. To limit even to 500 would negate such a large benefit of using Kagi in the first place. If there was one feature that should be splurged on and have a performance impact on, it would be ranking. Limits would still be needed but like handsel said, most of the sites on the internet is junk, so one could easily block 200 bad sites before they even get the chance to consider which ones should be boosted.

Millionshort.com gets rid of the top 1 million most popular domains from the search results. Since most SEO junk is competing to be on the first page/most popular domains, being able to still block specific domains after the top 1 million have been automatically pre-blocked severely reduces the amount of individual/personalized blocking the individual end user needs to do. A feature like this combined with an increased adjustment limit would help solve many of the concerns here.

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      NoGoogle We hope that our algorithms are already good enough so that most of the blocking of bad sites happens already, without the user needing to do anything. The block list is than used to polish what is left and as such few hundred slots there sound appropriate. If we are bad at filtering bad domains to begin with, we would need few million slots there, and we dont want to be in that position.

          Vlad Your algorithms do indeed do a better job than Google at dealing with SEO junk, but even than there's still quite a lot of "reputable" ones that when it comes to personal opinion that need to be blocked. For example the whole cryptocurrency area is loaded with popular "reputable" sites that just aren't to the quality that they should be. Some of the most popular cryptocurrency websites that show up on any search engine that many do indeed actually like are only popular because of herd mentality (which is insane in cryptocurrency right now) and thus it's amazing to have a search engine that allows those to be blocked because at the end of the day only a few good ones actually exist. Pretty much most of the centralized exchanges and crypto news sites are a scam and those show up a lot on any search engine. Many of the most popular crypto's of 2015 don't exist anymore and many of the popular ones today also won't be there in another 10 years so being able to block the many of them that exist helps tremendously. And this is just when it comes for searching anything related to crypto without getting into all the other areas the internet can be searched for that need their own blocking and boosting.

          I would personally love to block 500 and boost 300. So even an 800 limit would work for me even though 1000 would be more preferable.

              @NoGoogle said exactly what I meant 😃

              NoGoogle there's still quite a lot of "reputable" ones that when it comes to personal opinion that need to be blocked

              For me, these are for example most of the news sites – I prefer not to see websites which are using clickbaits, dark pattern, manipulate facts, do not respect GDPR (so definitely most of them) etc.

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                  Hi, I search for 'hartley ts16 for sale' and I get multiple results from xxx.australialisted.com, for example:
                  bald-hills-sa.australialisted.com
                  green-point-nsw.australialisted.com
                  bugle-ranges.australialisted.com

                  Is it possible to just block all results from australialisted.com?

                  • Vlad replied to this.

                    shawthing Not yet but it is a good idea. I think it has been suggested on the site so if you can find it please upvote

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                        @Vlad Is there a big cost to making this unlimited?

                        The more someone interacts with this feature, the more they are increasing their lock in. That's a pretty good problem to have.

                          greenbluepig Cost is mainly in terms of latency to process the list and apply it in run time to search as you do not want this to be affecting your search results by few hundred ms. And very few people ever come close to the current limit (I believe 1000) - I do understand that for those who do, this is very important though.

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