[snorremd]

I love that Kagi puts the "monetization" icon right next to results so I can avoid navigating to them. This means I'm much less likely to click on Medium.com links and other monetized blogs and sites. Often times the good content is on some personal website where the creator doesn't really care about earning money off it.

Another neat feature is the possibility to rank results or block them manually so you can lower visibility of certain sites. Really help push the scammy sites down.

Compare this to Google Search where the first half page is paid results (ads) and the rest of the results are of dubious quality. And you don't really have much of a way to influence your search results.

[JumpCrisscross]

> love that Kagi puts the "monetization" icon right next to results so I can avoid navigating to them

One of the things I love about Kagi is it isn't overly opinionated. I'm not particularly sensitive to this issue. You are. Yet until this comment, I didn't notice that Kagi was doing this. It informed you. It didn't get it in my way. That's good design.

> Another neat feature is the possibility to rank results or block them manually so you can lower visibility of certain sites. Really help push the scammy sites down.

The ad-driven search engines refusing to implement this really drives home their conflicts of interest.

[jay_kyburz]

I would be very interested to know if Kagi starts to down rank a site for everybody if lots of its users manually down rank it.

[Semaphor]

I don’t mind Medium being monetized, but I have the domain downranked, because posting on medium is a very strong signal that the content is worthless.

[carlosjobim]

Use reader mode on your browser, and you can read most of the paywalled sites.