Comment on Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

• MacStainless@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Kagi is worth it though. Been paying for 3-months and the ability to search, get info, click through quickly is a breath of fresh air. It's what Google USED to be. Plus it downranks pages with excessive trackers, you can prefer or omit websites from results based on personal preference, and it'll even alert you when websites have paywalled answers. The Kagi free trial is all I needed to be convinced.

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ended up subscribing. Holy shit this is a gamechanger!

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    • MacStainless@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Crazy how good it is, right?

      Google enshittified so gradually, we never even noticed.

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe I should just do it because it did make the web enjoyable again. Like you said, I loved Google 15 years ago! Sad its so shit now

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I forsee a future where kagi subscriptions are bought by libraries and that’s basically the only place to do internet searching for free.

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Right back to the old days of having to go to the library to use the internet, but it will be because corpos destroyed all usable info and require a 200 dollar per month th subscription to use their shitty Hitler ai.

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• osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you aren't paying, you're the product.

  What sucks is that I can't unbundle their AI shit from my subscription

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At least you can disable

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• ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  same actually, Kagi is pretty solid

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