Kagi's domain ranking feature lets you decide, on a per-domain basis, how websites show up in your searches. When you encounter a search result, you can adjust that website's ranking to one of five levels:
- Pin: Always surface this site at the top of results
- Higher: Boost the site so it appears more prominently
- Normal: The default, no adjustment
- Lower: Demote the site so it appears less often
- Block: Remove the site from your results entirely
These preferences persist across all your future searches and can be reviewed or changed at any time in your Settings.
Traditional search engines rank results based on a mix of ad revenue, engagement metrics, and opaque signals that serve the platform's business model, not necessarily your needs. Kagi has no ads, which means there's no incentive to push a paying advertiser's site above a genuinely useful one. Domain ranking takes this a step further: you explicitly tell Kagi what matters to you. In other words, you are in complete control of the search algorithm.
Why users love domain ranking on Kagi
"I love the ability to manually configure domain weightings in Kagi. Just tweaked my results to lower stackoverflow and stackexchange to oblivion, and... wow. What a breath of fresh air!" - Mike Clarke
"Nice about the Kagi search engine: It's so easy to block Facebook and Instagram completely from your search results. And everything paywalled I don't have access to anyway." - Regressed
"The ability to block/downrank/uprank/pin domains along with the slop filtering features alone are worth the price of admission for me." - Joachim Viide
"The ability to block (or demote) sites in search results across the board is one of my favorite Kagi features. No quora, no pinterest, no amazon, no [any of several slop sites] on any of my devices, ever." - Len
"I forgot sites like Quora and Pinterest even still exist thanks to this feature from Kagi removing the internet detritus from my results." - Mike Roach
Domain insights: see what the community thinks
Curious which sites other Kagi users are blocking or pinning? Kagi's Domain Insights page features a community leaderboard showing the most blocked and most pinned domains across Kagi's user base. It's a fascinating look at collective search preferences, you can discover which sites people find most valuable and which ones they've decided to filter out entirely. It's also a great way to find new domains worth pinning or to confirm you're not the only one blocking an annoying site.
See it in action
Want to see how domain ranking works in practice? Check out this quick demo: