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[–] Zimmy@lemm.ee 102 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Surprised to see so many plugging kagi in this thread. A subscription to search the internet seems crazy to me. Is it that good?

[–] darreninthenet@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This article is a pretty good summary of why, by Google's own words, an ad driven search experience will be rubbish:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics

Not only does Kagi produce great search results, as good as "old Google" IMO, its business model means the above cannot (or at least, shouldn't) happen. If it ever changed its model to include ads etc it would collapse so fast.

So for me, unlike the other poster, I'd recommend it to everyone who's finding the existing search engines are rubbish and full of useless Etsy and SEO etc links.

[–] ciaocibai 4 points 1 year ago

Pinterest links are the worst. I just don’t want that shit and images of random crap isn’t what I’m after.

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