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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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[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The whole internet loves Kagi

Lol no

Also Kagi is a glorified Google front end.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also Kagi is a glorified Google front end.

The fact a glorified Google front end manages to be less shit than Google is a pretty damning indictment of Google, I'll give Kagi that. Quoting Cory Doctorow, gratuitous italics and all:

The implications of this are stunning. It means that Google's enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned search pages are a feature, not a bug. Google prefers those results to Kagi, because Google makes more money out of shit than they would out of delivering a good product: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 15 points 7 months ago

A Danish ad company made a Google interface that they called "impersonal me" which searched Google with no personalisation. And not only was it better than Google search, it found things that normal Google just didn't show. In particular old comments I had written and lost track of. In the impersonal search they were easily found, in the normal search they weren't way down on the list, they weren't in the list at all.

Fascinatingly bad.

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 15 points 7 months ago

This is a reference to the milkshake duck tweet

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Last time I checked, you paid money to get the exact same results. Brilliant.

[–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

Ya but they are in a different order