Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I find this article a little conspiratorial, something they admit themselves, but it’s not bad. I don’t think that Kagi has some evil agenda, but it’s a corporation, and as all corporate products, it can be enshittified. I think that Kagi is really useful for some people, as I’ve heard some really good things about it, but I’ve never had to actively searched for obscure stuff, I always know where and how to look for the information I want, so I don’t see the use for me. I’ll keep an eye on them, let’s hope they become a good company.
ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 1 week ago
I tried Kagi briefly a while ago. It’s fine. Google is much better for obscure stuff if you’re willing to use it like people did in the 00s. Refine queries based on results and repeat until you find what you want. It also has the benefit of very good results linked in the Ai summary, which people often overlook.
Kagi might be better if you want less commercial results for broad terms, but I don’t really search that way these days, so I don’t need it for that.
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 week ago
It’s been fine for me as well. The article’s definitely a bit tin-foily in a lot of sections, so I’d go to specific ones that you care about and look at those instead.
I just use it as an alternative search engine that is supported through a subscription rather than ads and sponsored results. Being able to manually rank sites is also super helpful and lets me bring sites like MDN to the top while pushing w3school and etc below it.
Anything beyond that, as far as I’m concerned, is extra. Not selling user data is a big extra though, and I’ll likely reconsider if that ever changes.