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sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The results aren’t always perfect, but its more of fighting with SEO.

With DDG I’d often have to switch back to Google for a query. Now when switching from Kagi to Google when I can’t find a result the results are usually worse. For a niche topic I’m vaguely familiar with I’ll usually do ChatGPT so I can get the proper search terms and then find what I want on Kagi.

It tends to improve the more you adjust your personalized weights. I was pretty lazy with that the first month and found it slightly subpar compared with Google. Now it seems way better.

Lots of UI customizations if you don’t like a particular feature. As an example I don’t like their Listicles feature (groups top X type of results). Mostly because that content is poor quality. Disabling the feature just removes those crap results that would go in the widget which is a bonus for me.

The ability to switches lenses (topic contexts) that you can customize those result weights for instead of one global context Google assigns you.

I wish they had a better solution for anonymous searching. Their is a pay as you go API I could use with a second account funded from cleaned bitcoin. Would be great if I could use the website though from a pay as you go funded source.

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shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Burner email, Monero, and Trocador.app. mission accomplished.

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- sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  not at all. with that, you achieve pseudonymity, because even if they can’t know who you are, they can tie every search you do to the very same account, your “pseudonym”.
  
  with DuckDuckgo (and I’m not a DDG fan to be honest) I can just change my IP and clear browser local storage to make several anonymous searches.
  
  with kagi, even if you take the inconvenience of creating a new account each month, all your monthly searches are tied to a single account.
  
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  - shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    not at all. with that, you achieve pseudonymity, because even if they can’t know who you are, they can tie every search you do to the very same account, your “pseudonym”.
    
    Good point
    
    with kagi, even if you take the inconvenience of creating a new account each month, all your monthly searches are tied to a single account.
    
    Not as far as i can tell. If you used a new burner email every time and paid through trocador with monero your payments could be tied back to the instant exchange, but no farther since monero uses ring signatures.
    
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    sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Not as far as i can tell. If you used a new burner email every time and paid through trocador with monero your payments could be tied back to the instant exchange, but no farther since monero uses ring signatures.
    
    I didn’t mean to your real identity (if you’ve managed to do payment well enough and never leak your IP while using it), I meant that even if you create a new pseudonym every month, all your monthly searches are tied to a single pseudonym, which can reveal a lot about an individual.
    
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