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 @lori I am sorry, I am not going to read the text wall, I had never heard of them, and I am happy with google, but did I just read "paid search engine"? A ... WHAT? "paid" search engine?? Who would pay to find something??? I know google is sponsored and stuf, but it works, I always find what I want. Immediately. For free. A ... WHAT? 4 comments
 @ManniCalavera Honestly even BEFORE I turned around on Kagi and was happily using it, I only found it about on par with vanilla Bing in terms of results. The main benefit was being able to block domains, but I don't actually think the search results themselves are anything to write home about. They're good but not groundbreaking @UkeBLCatboy @lori If I could pay for a search engine that just did what search engines did in 2004, I would do it in a heartbeat. Running a web-scale search index is not a cheap operation, and as long as I'm not the one paying to keep the lights on, anything I get served is suspect. I still. . .you know, don't pay for a search engine. I'd sooner write my own spider. @b4ux1t3 @UkeBLCatboy I would absolutely pay for a solid search engine, and I did pay for Kagi back when I thought maybe it would be that (the results weren't magical but they were at least pretty good and I hoped they'd get better) |
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The "it works" part is heavily disputed now by a large amount of people, and Kagis search was as good as Googles heyday 20 years ago or so - thats what I read. To pay for a service you deem good is a good idea, I think, as long as it doesn't prey in other ways on you.