This is surprisingly awesome. For everyone who wants to paste in the suggested rules, you can use these:

^https://(?:www\.)?reddit\.com|https://old.reddit.com

^https://(?:www\.)?imgur\.com|https://rimgo.bcow.xyz

^https://x\.com|https://xcancel.com

^https://bsky\.app|https://witchsky.app

^https://www\.youtube\.com|https://skipcut.com

^https://www\.npmjs\.com|https://npmx.dev

^https://www\.curseforge\.com|https://legacy.curseforge.com

^https://www\.goodreads\.com|https://biblioreads.eu.org

^https://en\.m\.wikipedia\.org|https://en.wikipedia.org

Paste them here: https://kagi.com/settings/redirects

Blocking, lowering, raising, and pinning domains has been one of my favorite Kagi features. Some of my block highlights include pintrest (and all it's other TLDs) and any AI trash articles I find when looking up something programming related. I lower Quora and Medium. I raise good references like docs sites, Wikipedia, ArchWiki, etc.

Not only are the stock results better: I also get more control over what I see and how it's presented. Huge fan.

Man, I love Kagi. Two years ago I would never have thought I'd ever pay for a search engine, but the option to block garbage domains like userbenchmark or sites with purely AI generated content is just too good.

It's great how they constantly add little things to make their product better. This is definitely a useful feature. Giving tools to customize search makes it feel like a product instead of me being the product sold to advertisers.

FWIW, this is not new, though. Only the article about it is, I’ve been using it for a long time to redirect reddit links (as I’m not logged in on my phone)

Redirect rules are great until Kagi changes the URL schema or the target site breaks and now you're silently landing on garbage pages with no indication anything went wrong.

Kagi demonstrates what tech could be like if it didn't conspire against its users.

This is so much more useful than the abhorrent practice Google employs of rewriting all its search result links simply to track what you clicked.

This is useful for redirecting x to xcancel

Same trick worked for avoiding MySpace embeds in 2006. User-side redirect layers keep shipping every decade or so because platforms keep misbehaving.

This reminded me that a couple of years ago I set Kagi up to never show results from x.com at all. Nothing was lost.

We did the same thing with a few sites that were just noise for us. Honestly you don't miss it -- after a month you forget those results ever showed up in the first place.

I do redirects like that in my browser using Redirector. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

Redirector is solid. I've been using it for a few years and the pattern matching is flexible enough to handle edge cases — though I had to dig through the docs to figure out wildcards in the include pattern initially.

There is another one: https://libredirect.github.io/ A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and many other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends. This is a fork of no longer maintained Privacy Redirect. Alternative frontends are fetched automatically, so it mostly works out of the box.

A reminder that Kagi, unfortunately, buys search index data from Russia and has repeatedly refused to stop doing so (https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...).

This is unfortunate, because I would love to use Kagi (in fact I was a subscriber before I learned about the above). For some of us, money flowing to Russia and/or search index data coming from Russia are moral issues.

Not sure where you are from but it seems that the world is okay with buying from Russia again.

The US is allowing the purchase of Russian oil again.

I agree with you, but whatever Kagi is paying is nothing in comparison with governments (that people voted for) sending Russia money

They also use Google (USA) index. The president of USA is problematic for many reasons but lately he has been threatening war crimes and genocide.

Buy Russa is the only bad country in the world.

I uninstalled Reddit in protest to API changes, whenever I had to click Reddit links from search result, I was disgusted by their website, slow, bloated and ugly. I don't pay for kagi, so my workaround was -libredirect extension and farside.link website for working instances in Iceraven and helium browser.

too bad search is gradually made obsolete by ai

Kagi includes a robust set of AI features also. Internally, my company uses the Kagi search results API to make agents more capable.

AI still uses search engines though.

Maybe in your corner of the world but not mine.

Does this redirect happen before or after ranking? Redirecting reddit.com to old.reddit.com post-click is just a convenience wrapper -- it doesn't affect what Kagi indexes or surfaces. Useful, but not the same as controlling which content wins.