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0 pointskuschku1y ago0 comments

It's really easy to find real reviews. The magic trick is -affiliate -amazon. You can add other qualifiers as well.

Try it: https://www.google.com/search?q=macbook+m3+pro+review+-affil...

Reviews financed via affiliate links are just camouflaged ads. So Google should offer a filter to remove all of them.

I add similar qualifiers to almost all of my searches. They make the web feel like it's 2010 again.

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In general, for most searches I just want to filter out ad-supported sites completely (including affiliate ads but also all ohers). Those will always have misaligned incentives.

Of course Google will never provide this because their incentives are also misaligned, being the biggest online advertising company.

eproxus1y ago

Awesome tip. I made a Kagi lens with these settings:

https://kagi.com/lenses/0MqOTt5t5MajrIkHAqHEgDeoKzF1a4TS

(Can’t share example results since Kagi doesn’t let you share results from lenses)

janalsncm1y ago

The results would only be notable if they were substantially better than the Google results.

richwater1y ago

Doesn't Kagi currently pay to access Google's index?

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kuschkuOP1y ago

EDIT: If Google decides to ever remove this useful feature as well, here's an archive link showing what the results used to look like at the time of posting: https://archive.is/5KwA6.

sherr1y ago

That seems to be a great tip. Thanks.

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