Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website

geography082@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• 7oo7@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m just gonna block the word kagi on my lemmy client. I’ve been seeing a trend of people trying to create a big deal out of non issues trying to sell kagi for a long time. The amount of votes and some of the replies are always sus too.

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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s really disingenuous to mud sling people with a different view by implying they themselves don’t exist/are astroturfing/are bots.

    I’m a real human who decided to use their service for kicks and actually like some of the benefits and control over the results compared to other search engines.

    Especially when I’m doing research, which is usually half of all my time searching anyways.

    Enough that I decided to pay for the service.

    Are you saying that because I liked a service that I can’t seem to get anywhere else I’m now the bad guy?

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  • DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This type of thing has made reddit unusable lately and I hope it doesn’t show up here lemmy has a better defense against “subtle spam.”

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    • darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thing is how do you differentiate between a bunch of people who genuinely like a product and are happy to say so because it’s solved a problem for them that they see other people having, and “subtle spam”?

      For instance, I’m a Kagi subscriber and have been for some months now as it’s doing a good job for me, and I’ve had the odd person leap down my throat accusing me of being a corporate shill etc, and I am absolutely not (but that’s what a shill would say!!!)

      How does anyone get a product recommendation from a product that’s genuinely growing in popularity so people are recommending it? I get there needs to be a healthy dose of cynicism but where does the line get drawn to the point where that cynicism is no longer “healthy” and simply means everyone distrusts everything that’s made by a company if somebody on the internet says it’s good?

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      • DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve even seen people saying that any brand mention will be compensated, even slightly negative. I think some sort of web of trust is the only answer.

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• Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I agree. I was paying Kagi a few months ago but then started self hosting a SearXNG instance. The nicest thing about it is that I can replace links and select the engines I want to use. It’s very customizable.

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