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Is Kagi search engine worth it? (kagi.com)
submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) by fdrc_lm@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Just had a conversation about this. I'll copypasta what I said there.

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

tl;dr: they’re all in on AI (their own model, FastGPT, which is terrible), they make some very questionable business decisions with limited funds, and have a poor understanding of what Personally Identifiable Information (PII) actually is.

I could compromise on some of these things, but if I’m going to pay for their service as a Google alternative, I need to compromise less than I do with Google already.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago

Also DDG is a perfectly viable option.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Appreciate you linking in your blog post. I've been on the fence about Kagi and you bring up a lot of good points informed by sources I'm unlikely to delve into.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

To put you back on the fence, it had the best algorithm when I tested it some time ago. It showed me things I wanted by default. Google always needs some massaging and ddg needs a !g

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Dammit, my fence picket didn't even get cold!

[–] mmmac@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah no im with the above user on this one. I have used kagi for over a year now and have never needed to use another search engine to find something

[–] LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Same here.

Finding actual answers or at least able to point me in the right direction is way better than any of the other search engines I’ve tried.

DDG, Google, Bing, SearchNX, Ecosia, Brave, and probably some more, they just aren’t even in the same ball field for the things I look up personally.