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Stract| A search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. (trystract.com)
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[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

How does this show customization of almost anything? Looks like you can only apply one optic at a time and they are very limited in scope. Like I've never cared about hacker news. I don't care to remove the 10k most popular sites, in fact it's want the opposite. Additionally I'd want to mix and match optics. Also let optics be customable. Like why 10k top sites. Why not top 1k or bottom 3000k. How many are there even? The number means nothing if you don't understand what you're left with.

[–] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kagi does exactly what you’re describing. It’s what I’ve been using.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Been hearing about it a lot, so your comment made me check them out.

First 2 links I clicked on on their homepage are 404s. Like, what. I don't have the words for what kind of impression that gives.

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Specially for a paid search service, hard pass that they can't even point their links correctly.

[–] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm I just checked, they’re all live and their status page for each link has no outages. I would check any content blockers etc. that you have, I suspect it’s a problem on your end. They do use different domains for their blog, feedback, and help KB etc.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Weird, they do, but they redirect for me and the final URL is different than what you pasted.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html

My best guess is that a DNS record is messed up on their end, and since I’ve been to those pages before relatively recently, the cname or A-record is still cached for me.

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