Comment on YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine

• Linssiili@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I suggest going straight to kagi.com, or you can also use your current search engine to find it using query “kagi”.

  But to be serious, it’s great. The search results themselves feel like how google used to feel years ago before the enshittification, and there are many useful features, like changing priority of different websites. I for example have removed all pinterest sites, reduced instagram and increased wikipedia weighting. They have a free 200 search trial, give it a go!

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• Bongles@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m a fan so far myself. It’s not always perfect but you can take your search to any of the other popular search engines right from Kagi if you need to.

  It’s got a quick answer button which is using one of them new fangled AIs to pull an answer for your search out of the results, and then lists the sources for each bit it’s telling you. You can also “summarize a page” for any of the results.

  You have these lenses that people were mentioning and one of the default ones that I use all the time is “forums”. So if my results are a bunch of shitty articles I click that and it shows me only sites like reddit instead.

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• redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m actually still evaluating it. It can returns results normally buried on google, and you can block or prioritize sites permanently on your search settings. So far it’s pretty good, but it’s still too early for me to decide if it’s actually worth the money, though I have signed up for unlimited plan so I can review it further. Google and Bing have this perverse incentive where making their search a more ineffective would result in large increase in revenue because you’ll search more and thus see more ads. The premise of paid search engine that don’t have any incentive to make you do more searches seems appealing to me. In fact, Kagi has huge incentive to make their users search as little as possible (and thus must deliver good search result) in order to be profitable because they said it them cost 1.5 cent per search.

  There is a trial account with no credit card required that can be used for 200 searches.

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