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Just had a conversation about this. I’ll copypasta what I said there.

tl;dr: they’re all in on AI (their own model, FastGPT, which is terrible), they make some very questionable business decisions with limited funds, and have a poor understanding of what Personally Identifiable Information (PII) actually is.

I could compromise on some of these things, but if I’m going to pay for their service as a Google alternative, I need to compromise less than I do with Google already.

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acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Also DDG is a perfectly viable option.

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SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Appreciate you linking in your blog post. I’ve been on the fence about Kagi and you bring up a lot of good points informed by sources I’m unlikely to delve into.

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- boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  To put you back on the fence, it had the best algorithm when I tested it some time ago. It showed me things I wanted by default. Google always needs some massaging and ddg needs a !g
  
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  - EvenOdds@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Agreed. I pay for Kagi, and find their search better than any other, and struggle when I’m forced to use another search engine temporarily.
    
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  - SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Dammit, my fence picket didn’t even get cold!
    
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    mmmac@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah no im with the above user on this one. I have used kagi for over a year now and have never needed to use another search engine to find something
    
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padge@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thanks for sharing this, very informative read. I might have to go through that Cohost article when I have a spare hour haha

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isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thank you, very interesting post. I’ve interacted with Vlad before, he’s very unhinged. I’m just using Kagi for a good time, not a long time.

I’m ready to jump off at the first whiff of them using my data for something funny, but I do really really like the idea of having a search engine that works this good and doesn’t show me ads or sell my data, I’m allergic to both. Searxng results were complete garbage on all instances I’ve tried.

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