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brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This is tough.

1: Kagi is getting some play in Lemmy comments recently.

2: Lemmings are often technology evangelists, making Lemmy a good place to astroturf for very specific products.

3: Companies are better than ever at properly seeding account comment histories to prevent suspicion.

We should all be appropriately skeptical, though somewhat polite can’t hurt either since there’s never proof of anything and I’ve sounded like an ad before.

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Baines@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
who honestly pays for a fucking search engine

reads hard like astro turfing

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- ultranaut@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I do. I use search basically every day and when I’m working I don’t want to waste a bunch of time digging through bullshit if I can help it. Google sucks, $10 a month for a better experience that both saves me time and helps get Google more out of my life is worth it to me.
  
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  - Baines@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    that reads like an ad so hard lol
    
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    jmanes@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I pay for Kagi and it works better than Google. Nobody is astroturfing for them, you’re just paranoid.
    
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- brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah.
  
  If Google released Google Premium - where teams of offshore workers deranked SEO spam junk - would you give them 99 cents a year to Stop The Madness?
  
  This is that, except it’s a no name, and the cost is far more. But I’d consider the $0.99/yr.*
  
  If that seems more sane… imagine you have plenty of disposable income so whatever the no-name charges is practically free for you. There has to be a market for it. But the resistance will certainly be immense.
  
  * (I’d instantly pay DDG 99 cents for a year of provably better results, whereas I’d have to think about Google b/c they have too much power and it’s an uncomfortable endorsement.)
  
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  Back to astroturfing…
  
  Anytime Kagi is mentioned I suppose I’ll jump in and say they’re an oft-mentioned brand suspected by at least a handful of users to be astroturfing, although there’s no proof, and SearXNG is a popular non-commercial alternative. I wanted to throw Grasp in to give a commercial competitor a shout but they’ve “paused”.
  
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