donuts@lemmy.world
on 24 Jul 2025 23:24
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I think you need to toggle “Verbatim” in the search tools option for it to work, otherwise it just kinda tries to guess what you are looking for, search terms be damned.
Lemmchen@feddit.org
on 25 Jul 2025 00:11
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On Kagi you can block domains from the results, if that’s what you’re looking for.
dating1999@lemmy.ca
on 25 Jul 2025 02:35
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Maybe because of inconvenience. Who’s gonna type it in front of every search they do? Maybe some more knowledgeable people will do.
Give the browser extension uBlacklist a try if you want to always filter out specific sites. I did that to block some AI slop and content mill sites that are good at gaming search engines.
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 26 Jul 2025 11:19
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I think you need to toggle “Verbatim” in the search tools option for it to work, otherwise it just kinda tries to guess what you are looking for, search terms be damned.
On Kagi you can block domains from the results, if that’s what you’re looking for.
Maybe because of inconvenience. Who’s gonna type it in front of every search they do? Maybe some more knowledgeable people will do.
Well, they supported this syntax in the past. At some point they broke it.
For sure, they didn’t bother fixing it, because only more knowledgable people used this. But yeah, still valid to complain about it then…
Try tapping the “search instead for” link.
Stop using Google?
Any (free) alternatives that don’t exhibit this behavior?
DuckDuckGo follows instructions
This is the one that I use.
Wth I’ve been using this one for years and it never used to listen when I told it to do this, and now you’re telling me it does? Since when?
I have never had a wrong response, so I can’t tell since when.
Give the browser extension uBlacklist a try if you want to always filter out specific sites. I did that to block some AI slop and content mill sites that are good at gaming search engines.
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