Searxng has been pretty sweet, been hosting my own for about a year and some change with pretty good results.
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otterpop@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This might be one of those things where self hosting isn’t worth the pain, like email.
I’ve been using Kagi for several years now and have been very happy with it.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Dultas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I do get blocked by engines occasionally which can have a drastic impact on results.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Nah, fuck Kagi.
They are literally giving part of your subscription fee to fucking Russia. In comparison, DuckDuckGo have ended their partnership with Yandex. Vlads refusal to follow suit and his steadfast support of Yandex is quite telling to say the least.
Yet another part of your subscription goes to Elon Musks xAI to support Grok in their AI assistant. Even if you are not using that model, all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. You can’t opt out of that.
beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Man, I used kagi for 2 months or so and stopped subscribing after that because while there wasn’t really anything that I’d seen that’d make me outright unsubscribe there were many things that I found odd and it didn’t make sense to pay so much for a product that I didn’t agree with all that much. For instance:
Unable to remove yandex from my search because:
Despite having so many AI features that barely fit into a search engine, such as a translator (slop frontend) and an entire browser?
It called itself “unprofitable” while giving an honestly insane quota of AI use (ex. if user pays 10$: 10$ - 20% worth of tokens = 8$ total quota), giving 100 free searches with, as far as I could see, very little protection against burner emails (the translator seems to not need an account at all and it’s an llm frontend, so it shouldn’t be cheap), and it had many different views in many different places from me.
But all that made me do was hmmm and shrug it off. I mean, we’re different humans from different backgrounds, of course we’d hold different views.
But holy shit. Hoooooooly shit. That conversation about the GDPR in the article. What the fuck. What in the actual fuck did I just read there. The fact that the CEO emailed him an explanation despite him explicitly asking to not be emailed too. Bruh.
Sims@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
You should look into why so many people isn’t angry at Russia and are now blaming US. Your anger is exactly how US manufactures consent for all their wars, and it keeps you from discovering why people doesn’t hate Russia and even blame US/the west for starting it. They simply create a lynchmob - an echo-chamber - where people won’t listen to counter points bco anger. It works.
ALL US moral attacks on their ‘enemies’ (Ussr/Russia, N.Korea, China, Iran and oc ALL nations that wont be dictated how to live by the US elite) are such manufactured BS, and it all runs on the anger they create in people, and from there, they can do what they want in the name of ‘war against evil’. It will continue as long as people keep believing US and their controlled information bubble.
Give it a try, just read all the headlines in this list: What really happened in Ukraine?
If you couldn’t, or you still refuse the idea of foul play after reading - they got to you…
blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Tankies acting like his conspiracy theory sources and YouTube playlist is objective fact and saying everyone else is sheeple.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
tankie “leftists” fuck off
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Thank you for your service. 50 ₽ have been deposited in your bank account. Don’t forget to fill your quota by the end of the day unless you want to volunteer for military service.
Tankie that use youtube conspiracy as objective truth
Also, you can hate both the USA and Russia, look, you can even hate China at the same time!! Crazy shit right?
forsho@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You didn’t open it, huh? The link goes to a YouTube playlist, not an article to read.
What was your goal here? That someone would read your comment and say “I don’t want this guy to think I’m a liberal zionist!” and then overcorrect to believing all the drivel in the link without question?