<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ricci" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricci</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> Yikes, it&#39;s also the #1 &quot;lowered&quot;:<br /><a href="https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard&amp;k=-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboar</span><span class="invisible">d&amp;k=-1</span></a> Higher than even foxnews!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ricci" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricci</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> Blocking Forbes makes sense, blocking NYT and WaPo? Is it because people don&#39;t want to pay for news, or because they&#39;re too fash for MSM? Makes you wonder…</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ricci" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricci</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> Wow. It&#39;s higher than a lot of truly awful sites.</p><p>But I think they started to do GenAI-generated answers at some point, in which case they fully deserve the block. Until then it was mostly just influencer BS, like a parallel LinkedIn.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ricci" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricci</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> OMG. That&#39;s really sad. All that work for nothing, then.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev" class="u-url mention">@<span>isagalaev</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://esq.social/@D_J_Nathanson" class="u-url mention">@<span>D_J_Nathanson</span></a></span> the legal defense could be I thought they were MS-13.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> </p><p>... and this seems to be a common sentiment, it&#39;s up there in the top sites blocked by kagi users along with 200 versions of pinterest and Breitbart: <a href="https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboar</span><span class="invisible">d</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> all I know is thats its search engine rank was waaaaaay out in front of its average answer quality, when I started using kagi and it let me block sites from my results that&#39;s the first one that went on the list</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ricci" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricci</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> There was a brief period when I think it had corners that were quite good (and infinitely better than Yahoo Answers). Lots of smart people were writing answers and we sort of got to know one another a bit, even. Having spent a lot of time on it, I have a theory about what caused its decline… but I can&#39;t really say it in polite company (aka, public).</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ricci" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricci</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> I think it&#39;s alive, just morphed into some other thing entirely. I somewhat regret the tons of time I put into it (1.2K answers).</p>