Ah, does Duckduckgo not do that too anymore? I thought there wasn’t a fully independent search engine.
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floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months agoKagi includes search results from the big search engines, which would mean Google and Bing. So while they do some of their own crawling to improve the results, some of your money will still be going to Google and Microsoft. It’s still a step in a better direction though. I don’t know whether Kagi has any plans to become more independent in future.
kat@orbi.camp 2 months ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I can’t think of a fully independent one.
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 2 months ago
DDG uses Bing primarily.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 months ago
help.kagi.com/kagi/…/search-sources.html
I tried finding API pricing for Google but it’s probably buried somewhere. They make it sound “free” but with usage limits, which surely Kagi exceeds? Either way, it’s probably on a “per-call” basis, and Google gets a lot less money that way compared to crapping out money driven search results.
“Our unique algorithms down-rank pages with a lot of ads and trackers (which we have found correlate with a decrease in content quality) and promote content from independent, ad-free sources and personal websites.”
I’m sure it’s not perfect, but my experience with Kagi has been very very good. With DuckDuckGo I’d often have to revert to Google to find what I was looking for, but not with Kagi.
I pay for Kagi, so my opinion might be clouded by confirmation bias.