Comment on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For people who are interested in using a search engine that

  • does not fund a bigot,
  • does not collect all your search results under a single account, and
  • does not charge you money,

  I’d recommend checking out a community-supported SearX instance instead!

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• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not really no.
    Kagi has vastly more features. Most are extremely useful. Including privacy.
    And the whole “funding a bigot” complaint strikes me as kind of silly. The “partnership” is just them using the Brave search API, no different than they do Google, Bing, and a few others. I even have Brave as one of my sanity check browsers when something doesn’t work on Firefox.

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So you don’t dispute Brendan Eich is a bigot, you just think it’s silly to point out that fact to potential buyers of their platform?

      Can you explain to me how a service that ties all of your searches, and payment info, to a single account is more private than one that does not?

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s silly to try to avoid doing anything that may, in some way support a bigot. They are literally everywhere. Even Gandhi was racist.

        It’s just the payment info, not the searches. And since their users are their only revenue source, because they aren’t selling ads, they have no reason to save searches.

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    • muix@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Privacy doesn’t exist without the ability to compile and self host.

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  • mihnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      tl;dr searx.space

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      • mihnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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