Block specific URL

PiotrekNL

I would like to blacklist a specific url or a subdomain. For example a specific subreddit.
I often search for a subreddit and a marketing subreddit for a specific product I am not inerested in is at the top. I want to remove it from all my searches so it doesn't ever show up. I don't want to remove the whole reddit though.

Users would add URLs or subdomains they don't want to see to the list and then those wouldn't appear in their search. It would be very convenient to blacklist right from the search results (like you can now do for the whole domain).

silvenga

I have wanted the same, although, my use-case is different.

A lot of technical documentation is versioned, and typically the version is within the path. For example, Bootstrap:

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.6/getting-started/introduction/ (Old)
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/getting-started/introduction/ (Current)

It would be nice to be able to ignore the older versions.

I've also had issues with sub-domains - while I think you can block a subdomains in most cases, I've found nuances somewhat confusing. For example:

yarnpkg.com (Raise)

This causes sub-domains to be raised e.g. "v2.yarnpkg.com".

But once the apex domain has been raised, you can't lower a sub-domain from the search UI. But you can manually add a sub-domain, e.g. "classic.yarnpkg.com", which does work as expected.

Vlad

silvenga You can solve this particular use case by using Kagi's redirect feature (redirecting any documentation url to the newest you want) since all doc page seem to share the same url structure.

silvenga

Vlad Ooh, I like that idea, I think that would work for a lot of documentation e.g. my example, Bootstrap.

A nit-pick, some documentation has a bit more flux in document naming - for example, the Ceph documentation - https://docs.ceph.com/en/reef/. I constantly have the problem where a page from an early version, doesn't exist in a newer version - because the page was moved or the title was changed (changing the URL). It can be difficult to find the new page.

That said, I really hope Kagi Sidekick can be a solution to that - this is mostly working around how most built-in search engines for docs kind of suck.