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Domain ranking: block, lower, raise, pin

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Domain ranking reshapes which results you see and in what order, permanently, across every search. There are four actions:

  • Block — remove a site's results entirely.
  • Lower — push a site down.
  • Raise — pull a site up.
  • Pin — force a site to the top.

Ranking runs after results are fetched, as a re-rank over the normal order, so it is instant and never costs an extra search.

Try any action on a single search with a one-shot bang before you commit to a saved rule:

TEXT
!block pinterest.com macrame patterns     → drop pinterest.com from this search
!lower w3schools.com css grid             → push w3schools.com down
!raise developer.mozilla.org css grid     → pull MDN up
!pin arxiv.org diffusion models           → pin arxiv.org to the top

The Adjust control

Every result on the page carries an Adjust chip. Open it to block, lower, raise, or pin the result's site — or reset it to normal — in one click. The chip shows the site's current state, and a change takes effect on your next search. For finer control (strength, match type, scope, query conditions), use Settings → Search Control.

Match types

A rule can match a site or URL in several ways:

Match type Matches Example pattern
Domain Exactly this host (and www.) example.com
Domain suffix This host and its subdomains example.com (also blog.example.com)
Host wildcard A host glob with * *.ru, news.*.com
URL path URLs that start with host + path example.com/blog/
URL regex A regular expression over the full URL ^https?://m\.example\.com/
Title keyword The result title contains text sponsored
URL keyword The result URL contains text /amp/
Any keyword Title or URL contains text utm_

The Adjust chip uses domain suffix, so a rule covers the whole site, subdomains included; example.com and www.example.com are always treated as the same host.

Strength (weight)

Lower and raise carry a strength that nudges a result down or up; the Adjust chip uses a moderate ±60. In Settings you can set any strength: lower is −1 to −100, raise is +1 to +100. Pin carries a priority (0–100) that orders multiple pins. Block has no strength — it removes the result outright.

How overlapping rules are resolved

When more than one rule matches a result, Neuji resolves them deterministically:

  1. Block wins over everything (a blocked result is removed).
  2. Then pin (highest pin priority first).
  3. Then raise / lower combine: the strongest matching adjustment leads, with weaker matches contributing a fraction; the total is clamped to ±100.
  4. A more specific match beats a broader one (a URL/path/regex rule outranks a domain rule, which outranks a suffix rule, which outranks a keyword rule).
  5. Layering: a one-shot bang rule beats your personal rules, which beat an active lens's rules. A personal normal can neutralize a lower-priority rule from a lens or list.

Summoning pinned sites

If you pin a specific site but it is absent from the page's results, Neuji can summon it: fetch that site for your query and place it at the top, so a pin you care about always appears. Summoning is on by default and capped to a few sites per page (an admin-tunable limit). It applies to concrete site pins (domain / domain-suffix / path), not to wildcard or keyword pins.

Transparency

Neuji always tells you what it changed. The results page shows a summary bar — "N blocked · N raised · N lowered · N pinned by your rules" — and each adjusted result carries a small why tag (raised / lowered / pinned). Expand the summary to see exactly which sites were blocked, and unblock any of them with one click. To see the page exactly as it came from the index, follow the raw results link (or append ?pz=0 to the URL).

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