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The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email (hackers.town)
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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I literally learnt about Kagi like a week ago from a Cory Doctorow's post. I was like oh, cool, someone there to fight google.

[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah man, same. Thought I'd give it a go after reading about if from Cory...

Honestly, for what I search for, DDG is sufficient, and it's not gonna hassle me about subscriptions.

What I'd really like to find is something like a pihole for search, where you have your blocklist, cache of things you've searched already (your own mini search engine?), and then a fallback engine (DDG, bing, Google, whatever) for things it doesn't already know.

I dunno. Search and AI botshit is everywhere, and it's gonna keep getting worse. Self-hosting tools seems to be the only way to take control back.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the DDG guy an asshole as well though?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But you don't pay him.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 7 months ago

He's not getting paid?