Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14100831

"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn’t find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    343·
    9 months ago

    People say Kagi is the same but it’s not. It takes Googles results and filters out the crap and orders results differently, since it’s not trying to get you to go to some commercial site unless you intend to.

    Also the lenses are great.

    • bloopernovaEnglish
      22·
      9 months ago

      Just being able to exclude certain sites, and reduce the ranking of others, makes search so much better in Kagi.

      I hope they eat Google’s lunch.

    • ChuckEffingNorris@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      This all works until Google cut off API access to a competitor right? Relying partly on a Google API is surely suicidal for a Google Search competitor…

    • jg1i@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      If you don’t do anything except use it like Google, then you only get improved search results. But the other features like lenses, site ranking, URL rewriting, question mark instant answers, and document Q/A make it way more worth it to me.

      • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        I think people are just used to being passive now. They dont tinker with the tech and they think its all the same.

        People still use Chrome also because Google kept saying its “faster”, which doesnt even mean anything. Security, privacy and plugin support is what matters.