I was with kagi for a year.
It was fine.
Their CEO is an asshole though. There was that thing where he went a bit nutty over some mild criticism. I don’t remember the details.
Anyhoo. Searx is nice for the moment.
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IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Kagi. But you free loaders would have to pay for something.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
arcterus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I feel like Kagi, after tuning, provides the best results at the moment (even including Google sometimes). You definitely need to tune it though since the default results are not that great. Agree about their CEO. TBH, at this point, I also wish they weren’t based in the US.
It’s been a few years since I last tried Searx, but I remember the results being pretty bad. Has it gotten better?
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Searx just proxies other engines, so the results are the same as the upstream results.
I’ve never really had a problem with results from any engine TBH.
The main thing I’ve learned over the last few years with Searx is that some instances are terrible while others are great. Some are slow, and often get blocked and take days for the admin to get a new IP or whatever. Right now I’m using perennialte.ch and it’s been great. They also redirect results at reddit to an alternative frontend which is a nice touch.
TheGoddessAnoia@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’m interested, but a bit reluctant. I find DuckDuckGo quite adequate for most things, except shopping online, something that I have to rely on for certain categories of items. How is Kagi on shopping?
arcterus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Shopping online locally or just finding certain items? It’s not great locally because it doesn’t seem to use your location for searches (which is good IMO), but it’s usually been fine for me if I’m just looking for something I want to buy. Note that you need to tune the results for them to be good (you can adjust site rankings for yourself).
null@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
I’ve been using Kagi for a bit. If I search for things one can buy, I get results similar to Google.
What have you found lacking in DDG for online shopping?
TheGoddessAnoia@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
It seems to take more keywords to home in on the kind of speciality items I look for, and does not always appear to detect connections between those keywords, for example in trying to find certain kind of veterinary support devices made to national specifications. One of the other commentors says Kagi is okay for shopping, so maybe I’ll give it a whirl because I’d love to be free of Google once and for all.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t really use it.
They have a free trial, no cc needed.
Rooty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You Kagi shills never give up, do you? Also, information wants to be free, hack the planet yadda yadda.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 months ago
👌👍🤡
mint_tamas@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The weirdest thing about switching to kagi was learning that the first few results have a good chance of being relevant. I got so used to scrolling down after a search. It was just weird to have the useful results on top. Similarly, learning that search syntax is actually meaningful and respected by the search engine (for the majority of cases).
andsens@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I love that the search results end. Like, “nah bruv, that’s it, and I’m not going to make shit up to get you to click ads”