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Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mooncake@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Kagi

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  • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m far too used to getting my search for free to pay for it. I’ll fuckin’ use chatgpt before I pay a subscription fee for that shit, even if it is a substantially better option.

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    • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Look at you having standards.

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    • mooncake@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s what I said before I used it, you can try it free for 30 days

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      • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I looked at it briefly, the only free option I saw was 100 free searches, which will not last your average user anywhere near 30 days. Shit that might not last me 3 days depending on what I’m doing.

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      • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is why tech communities suck.

        Too many shills and useful idiots trying to viral market bullshit.

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    • MonkeyBrawler@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Answers still Kagi. You get use of the basic tiers for all the big ai services.

      You ever wanted to blacklist Quora from search results? You can do that too.

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      • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not unless you have some way to get me a free lifetime membership, cause I’ve already made it pretty clear I’m not paying for it, and it wouldn’t even let me use it without making an account when I checked it out.

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  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    American company though. Not supporting that

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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shiiit, I really don’t want to go back to Google and all their sponsored/AI/tracking bullshit.

  I can tell you confidently that I simply just won’t.

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  • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s the alternative? I guess you can use chatgpt or whatever as a sort of search engine? shrug

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    • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      people who use LLMs as search engine make me go 😨

      my colleagues are doing it too, and I just want to yell at them that LLMs have no idea about reality, they will confidently tell you to eat glue

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      • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I admit I haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve heard it’s a thing, apparently? shrug But I’ve noticed in my other uses that they’re a lot better about citing sources for their claims now, so I guess you could just go ‘Hey what’s the capital of Vermont?’, ignore its answer, then click on the source link below it, and voila: search engine?

        My point was more: is this just the way things are going to go, we’re going to get funneled into using AI for everything whether we want to or not?

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      • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If you tell the o3 reasoning model to just search the web and give you the top results instead of answering your query it can actually be really useful for obscure queries. I was able to find specific spec sheets for my model of monitor when a google search would only produce the specs for basically any other model the manufacturer made. Even with the model number in quotes

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      searx, because it queries multiple engines that are accessible, and perhaps google frontends (whoogle, libre y, and that new mullvad thing).

      but for the past years I was exclusively using duckduckgo and it would be very said if it would go away :( I started recommending it to others too

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      • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah I’ve been using duckduckgo for a few years now and loving it, I really hope it doesn’t go away. Still waiting to hear from those guys about how this affects them.

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• skynet@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Brave Search has its own index

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  • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is that something built into the browser? i dropped Brave when I heard Google was forcing the adblock-gimping shit in Manifest V3 into Chomium. Also I was never entirely keen on their crypto-hawking bullshit.

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• toastmeister@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You think Microsoft gives you privacy?

  They make billions on targeted ad revenue.

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  • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, I use duckduckgo which is powered by Bing’s API. Hence why I said other privacy-focused search engine.

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• gradual@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Try using Startpage.

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  • Wiz@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That anonymizes Google results. It’s Google, all the way down.

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• philpo@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mullvad Leta is at least google minus the tracking.

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