Comment on People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays

NettoHikari@social.fossware.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This whole thread reads like astroturfers

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  • dsemy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nobody ever likes anything

    If you really don’t believe me, check out search.dsemy.com - my Searx instance which I stopped using because of Kagi.

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    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When we’re talking about the issues of search engines, and a whole bunch of people come in and “organically” promote a paid service, then my astroturfing detection rises up. This is how modern advertisement works and it fucking sucks.

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      • dsemy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I get what you’re saying, but it’s not very nice to accuse people of astroturfing when you can quickly look at their other posts/comments.

        Literally every person in this subthread who said something positive about Kagi is very clearly just a normal user who has recently posted things completely unrelated to it, judging by their history.

        Maybe I’m being naive about how sophisticated these campaigns have gotten, but it seems unlikely that a small company will invest the effort in making it seem this believable on such a niche platform.

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• dsemy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Kagi is actually awesome.

  I just started using it this month and I’m blown away by the results.

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• twei@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do they already have their own index? Last time I used it (when it was still beta) it was quite okay, but it was basically yandex or whatever with a different front-end and site-pinning

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• ghashul@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just started my trial, so far it’s looking good!

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• nitefox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s why I use brave search, it’s a free search engine and the results are actually really good

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  • atyaz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even if it’s good, their long term goal will always be to appease their advertising customers, not you. Google has the ability more than anyone else to make the perfect search engine but they’re not spending their time and resources on that because that’s not what will increase their revenue. That model is just fundamentally broken.

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