I apologize if this is old news, but I just noticed it. It looks like Kagi has added Fediverse Forums as a default Web search option.

      • @[email protected]
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        ive been finding lemmy content on duckduckgo and other engines for a while now. dont intend to try kagi tho so cant answer your question.

        • @[email protected]
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          34 months ago

          Surprisingly I’ve had zero Lemmy results in my searches.

          Probably because my searches aren’t “Tell me why Linux is so cool”. Lol.

          • @[email protected]
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            14 months ago

            Probably because my searches aren’t “Tell me why Linux is so cool”. Lol.

            sucks to suck i guess :) But yeah the stuff i was searching for was vaguely software related.

  • @[email protected]
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    I’ve been using Kagi for about a month now, and I think I’m gonna stick with it. Paying with dollars instead of data/attention feels more healthy for everyone involved.

    (Fully realizing, of course, that there’s nothing stopping them from doing both, and that’s why we need better laws. Voting with your wallet will never be a complete solution… but it is something I can do right now.)

  • Cyborganism
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    934 months ago

    Cool. Wish more search engines would do that.

    But, as far as Kagi goes, it’s a paid service and it’s an American company. So I won’t be using them.

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      Writing them off as an American company is totally valid, but I’m happy to pay for a quality service because it keeps ads out and lets me vote with my money. It’s really not much to cling to psychologically, but it helps. When I and others completely degoogle our lives it moves no needles at GoogHQ, but paying subscriber metrics are a KPI discussed in every board room in the world.

      • @[email protected]
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        144 months ago

        Lile they say, perfection is the enemy of privacy! Kagi has been the best as an engine out of all I’ve tried. If a better competitors comes up, I’ll give em my money.

    • Jo MiranOP
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      334 months ago

      What non-american search engine do you use?

        • @[email protected]
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          34 months ago

          I tried, years ago, I think their federated approach to building a database and crawling are cool - but at least the last time I checked, the actual search algorithm was just too bad. It often gave me completely irrelevant results and seemed very susceptible to spam sites gaming Search Engine Optimisation.

          • mesa
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            24 months ago

            Yeah I had it crawl a site I knew was mostly unique. Left for a day and searched, nothing. I had to give it the entire url for it to pop up with anything…

            Search is actually something that is kinda hard to get right. I just dont like having so many sites that are just small holes into google/microsoft/etc…search engines. I was hoping there was something out there that works.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        https://metager.org/ is run by a German non-profit. Since late last year it’s pay to use because their advertising partner (Yahoo) cancelled their contract without warning. But it’s cheaper than Kagi. Also the non-profit is part of the project that’s building the European OpenWebIndex ( https://ows.eu/ ) that’s releasing this year.

      • @[email protected]
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        134 months ago

        Search engine? I started rawdoging urls a while ago.

        The internet is increasingly more useless, the sites i really need are bookmarked anyway.

        • Jo MiranOP
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          44 months ago

          Instead of bookmarks I use the “share to Standard Notes” option. It names the note after the link, saves the link, allows you to write a summary or tags, and makes it all searchable so it is findable later rather than disappearing like a needle in a haystack.

        • @[email protected]
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          204 months ago

          And I like swiss cheese on my ham sandwiches. Oh, sorry, I thought we were just saying non sequitors.

          In all seriousness, that is not an answer to the question. Yes, some (often older) people will always use a search engine to find the same website they browse all the time. But search engines are also incredibly valuable for finding new things or verifying claims. I have a bookmark for the Warframe wiki but that doesn’t help me when I want to research different monitor energy efficiencies or find a repair guide for my toaster oven.

          And while people CAN collect a set of (searchable) websites for different topics they are interested in… that is how we got into (one of) our current mess(es). How many people just use reddit for everything and thus make themselves vulnerable to corporate shittery and misinformation campaigns.

        • @[email protected]
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          14 months ago

          I started rawdoging urls a while ago.

          Works best when you’ve got a web ring or other friendly community of contributors to reference against one another.

          But those are few and fair between in the modern day.

      • Count Regal Inkwell
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        14 months ago

        I ask friends who are more intelligent than me

        And if they don’t know I assume it is forbidden knowledge that would drive me mad to know

        (I am only half joking)

    • @[email protected]
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      154 months ago

      Not using Kagi because its an American company is valid. But people are too used to products that are free because they make the person using them the product. There is still a transaction with a free product.

      Kagi is not free because they respect your privacy and don’t sell your data.

      • Cyborganism
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        14 months ago

        I don’t use them or never read their privacy policy so i don’t know. But it’s not because it’s a paid service that company won’t use your data to sell it for more profit. That’s EXTRA profit for them, so why the hell not. And them being based in the US means I already can’t trust them with their poor privacy laws.

      • @[email protected]
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        104 months ago

        I have donated €1500 to opensource software projects and paid a whopping €7 for software. These (privacy respecting) projects got my money because they weren’t transaction based. Capitalism is not the only way.

      • @[email protected]
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        34 months ago

        But people are too used to products that are free because they make the person using them the product.

        That’s definitely one model for operating a public service, but its far from the only one.

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        There are plenty of paid products that do not respect your privacy and sell your data.

        And there’s free products that do respect your privacy and don’t make you the product. They are community products.

        For instance I offer my bandwidth and storage to thousands of strangers to share torrents and they do the same to me. No secondhand transactions happening.

      • @[email protected]
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        14 months ago

        I’d happily pay for search, but Kagi is way too expensive.

        10 searches a day, for $5/month? (US)

        Like, that is way too much.

        I can receive thousands and send thousands of emails per day for that price. Is search really that much more expensive?

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          $10/m is unlimited searches though…

          And yeah, searches are actually quite expensive. There’s a LOT of infrastructure that goes into making something unique with your own search engine that isn’t just a wrapper over Google.

          The actual compute cost per search, in 2024, was $0.0125. Kagi states they want to keep Costa below $0.015 per search, but their search partners are a major expense.

          That ofc ignores all the supporting infra, devs, support…etc that goes into making it all possible.

          • @[email protected]
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            The business model just doesn’t make sense then (using search partners).

            Because $60, let alone $120 US, a year is far more than most people would be willing to pay.

            Dunno what to say, it’s just more than most people can justify paying for the service.

            I’m gonna stick with DuckDuckGo and the newly free mullvad cached search

            • @[email protected]
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              43 months ago

              I mean, the business model works? They make money, they pay staff, and they are growing.

              I don’t know what you’re talking about, people have price sensitivity of course. You are projecting yours onto “everyone”, is it not a successful business?

              There’s a niche they cater to, if you are not that niche then you are not that niche. Doesn’t mean the niche doesn’t exist.

              • @[email protected]
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                13 months ago

                Sure, but I’m still feeling like complaining that there isn’t a business that’s made affordable pay-to-search a thing. (That I know of)

                I’m not taking back that $120 USD/year for search is way more than most people would be willing to pay

                Though yeah, I suppose saying their business model isn’t working was hyperbolic, I must admit.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      When does anti Russian gov aggression just become racism? Does using Google aid the war in Palestine?

      • @[email protected]
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        54 months ago

        I see your point, but I think there is a meaningful difference.

        Russia started a war with a peaceful nation. It is in no way, shape or form a provoked war.

        There are a couple of ways you can react to hurt the agressor. With the goal of making them stop hurting the innocent. Military action is one, economic is another.

        Most European countries have decided to hurt them economically. As a European I agree with this, and fully support it. I try my best not to support the Russian economy. If Russia as a country changes in the future, my view will probably change as well. This is a war that Putin started.

        That said, I believe the support from the US to Israel was wrong. The US has been supporting genocide. One could argue that supporting the US economy supports these sorts of actions as well. However, the scale is important and how much involvement is important.

        If you had mentioned an Israeli company, I would agree 100%. The difference is that the US have not been spending 1/4 to 1/3 of their entire fiscal budget fighting a peaceful democratic nation as the agressor.

        Anyways, at this point I am kinda mad at the US for being a unreliable partner and going to trade war with Europe and bailing in their responsibilities when it comes to the war in Ukraine and creating uncertajnty within NATO, threatening nations etc, anyways. So not spending a lot of money on US goods and services at the moment either no.

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      Every single time with red comes up there’s always this FUD. You, specifically, don’t miss any opportunity to make mention of this. Across Lemmy, which is rather suspicious. Helping the Russian war effort? That’s a pretty big leap here.

      Why?

      Imagine a search engine aggregator aggregating search engine results from multiple sources for aggregation. The more indexes they support the better the results are going to be for everyone, I don’t see this as a problem for data aggregation.

      Why should data aggregation give any sort of shits about geopolitics?

      Regardless, the topic of this post, fediverse search, is part of their own search engine anyways afaik

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        I have been sick a lot lately, so have had a lot of time on my hands. I don’t have a search for Kagi or something. I wanted to use Kagi though, so I was disappointed when I realized that they want to continue this practice.

        What are you implying with it being suspicious? In what way?

        If Kagi pays a Russian company for a service, that company pays taxes to the Russian government.

        Russia spends 32% of its budget on the Russian military. So for every dollar they get in taxes, one third is spent on the Russian military.

        With a corporate tax rate of 20% that means 6.4% of Yandex profits go to the military. Since Kagi is mainly a paid service, I don’t want my money to go to the Russian military, and I guess a lot of other people don’t want this either.

        https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-hikes-national-defence-spending-by-23-2025-2024-09-30/

        The Russian people are not to blame, and I am sure a lot of great people work at Yandex and at different companies in Russia. That said, Russia chose to attack a peaceful democratic country, they are currently sanctioned by a lot of western countries in hopes that it will pressure their economy enough to force them to stop the war.

        There isn’t much we can do to stop the conflict besides hurting them economically and supporting Ukraine. If we continue to use Russian products and services then that does not work. Unfortunately this affects everyone in Russia.

    • capital
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      13 months ago

      I encourage subscribers to go make themselves heard on this post if you support being able to disable particular indexes such as Yandex.

  • @[email protected]
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    14 months ago

    I think when I tried them out a while back they also had a usenet search? Can anyone clarify on this?

  • Sunshine (she/her)
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    14 months ago

    Kagi is shaping up to be really cool with this and the Orion browser supporting firefox/chrome extensions on ios.

  • Witty Computer
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    04 months ago

    The mandatory signing in to perform any search is a deal breaker. Privacy first

    • @[email protected]
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      04 months ago

      Feel like you’re jumping the gun a bit with this opinion. Kagi is one of the best options if you prioritize privacy. Have a closer look at their policies.

  • Noxy
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    134 months ago

    It’s had it for at least months but even if its years old it’s still a cool feature and deserves attention