Hey, here's some random shit that isn't related to your search at all, but it has a word slightly similar to a word in your search! BUY IT!!!
"I know the word you typed is a real word, but I searched for something else anyways because that's what more people do"
^Ad^ Search Results
I hate that search engine degradation is what’s lead me to use AI more. Instead of searching past pages full of 8 ads for a waffle recipe, I ask Copilot or something: “Give me a basic waffle recipe”.
So much computation to go back to what the web used to be great at.
I knew Google started ignoring double quotes for required text years ago, but I found out yesterday that it doesn't even think "site:xyz.com" needs to be followed.
I was researching something and saw some Reddit posts. Clicked below it to view results from Reddit and a third of them were other websites.
Google has always respected my double quote and site: searches. Please share a screenshot of it borken, I looked online and don’t see examples. If you have the time for a silly little thing :)
I know Lemmy doesn't like it, but Kagi is really great
Lemmy doesn't like it for a reason.
Im a massive proponent of FOSS, But I have not heard a single sustainable FOSS model for maintaining free search engines. It just takes so much capital to operate.
I think a paid model is much better than a privacy disrespecting / ad driven one.
if its individually paid, you don't have privacy.
It is if they dont store search queries, which they claim they dont. I have no reason to distrust them.
FOSS and paid are not mutually exclusive, but Kagi is not FOSS and of dubious transparency/trustworthiness.
Also Kagi is not operating a search engine, but a search aggregator mostly dependent on Google. They don't need much upfront capital to operate.
An actual search indexer competitive with Google is too expensive to be profitable without (tens of) millions of paid users or hundreds of millions of free ones (i.e. bing and maaaaybe yandex?).
True google alternatives are therefore only going to come out of big capital (MSFT), or less likely a government (EU?) funded company. There might be an argument to be made for decentralized search as well, but the only actual contender in that field right now is a crypto thing that probably relies mostly on bing/google. Still, a decentralized open indexer may actually make some sense in theory.
Right, but nobody hates google because ofits results. They hate that its privacy invasive.
Lemmy just likes shitting on popular things to feel superior
You keep on Kagi'ing
Lemmy loves Kagi. At least this Lemming does.
Astroturfing bad
Good search good
The former is unconfirmed to be sure
I’m liking $0 SearXNG: lots of instances if you don’t host your own (for max privacy I think)
Germany/Spain hosted instance with all the checkmarks (Vanilla, IPv6, 100% uptime): https://searxng.site
If you fancy paying for a decent cause, don’t see a problem with the paid option sometimes suspiciously mentioned on Lemmy. Free trialing it saw a pleasant experience.
Bruh, you think Im a bot?
Responding to the human who typed:
I know Lemmy doesn't like it
Explaining many Lemmings seem to like it, and attempting to explain why some may bristle at its mention
That’s all :)
I just tell AI to google stuff for me and link me to the best results...let it wade through the ads and spam.
Kagi has a really neat feature that if you phrase your search in the form of a question and add a question mark to the end of it, it'll summarize all of the top results and give footnotes to the pages that it evaluated. It saves me tons of time!
This post article goes REALLY into why. I am in no way a techie nor do I really care too much what goes on in the tech sector. I will never build a PC. Regardless, that article is extremely well written and worth the time despite the length.
Cannot upvote this enough. I subscribed to this guy's newsletter because of this article; it's honestly excellent.
What guy? Link above is broken :(
Nope nope nope nope nope
yeah that's why I switched engines.
You:
Google's response:
I have to know if the bottom is a real cake or if it's photoshopped. I hope it's real.
Real cake. It's fondant.
Probably children's clay
If I search for something specific I now usually ask chatgpt and describe what I'm looking for. The results are often (not always) far better.
I don't want to click through 50 pages of unrelated shit anymore.
Just google in general really
Coming out of my cage and I'm doing just fine
Honestly this made my day!
I want that cake.
Surprised nobody here has mentioned Kagi yet.
Surprised SearXNG is underrated. Basically what Kagi does but open source and self hosteable.
Searx is great, but Kagi has a completely different data source set than Searx. Searx is basically just an aggregator for various search engines.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
I don't see how it is different than an aggregator.
Kagi kicks ass! There, are you happy? I really do feel that way though. I'm very pleased with my decision to switch.
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