I pay for Metager and i do really recommend it. You pay a pittance per search while being free of the crap that infests the net. Kagi comes with itās own set of issues.
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NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com āØ14ā© āØhoursā© agoKagi is a paid service and feels weird to pay for a search engine, but things have felt so much better since I tried them out months ago.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus āØ14ā© āØhoursā© ago
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com āØ12ā© āØhoursā© ago
Iāll look into Metager as this is the first Iāve heard of it.
What set of issues do you see with Kagi? Itās the best Iāve encountered as of late, but if thereās more I should consider; Iād like to learn.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus āØ10ā© āØhoursā© ago
I mainly find their CEO problematic, and their focus on AI does not bode well for the future.
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com āØ2ā© āØhoursā© ago
Thank you for sharing. I do now recall a couple of the items you addressed, and Iāll have to keep others in mind.
We canāt have anything niceā¦ google, digg, Reddit, github, Kagi, proton mail. āat one point in time these were good. The rot or trajectory of rot seems inevitable.
Iām not anti AI, but it doesnāt need to be in everything all the time. It shouldnāt obfuscate data sources. It shouldnāt be allowed to consume and gather everything breaking laws that would apply to any individual and ought to be enforced for any corporate entity.
Pointing an AI at a larger companyās documentation or feeding a local one a largish manual and using it to figure out how or why 2, 3, or 4 parts work together has been useful for me in the past. Again where I can then get to the data to learn for myself.
Letting the pattern recognization machine (AI) assess a logfile or 3 that are intertwined to help find issues has been helpful.
Injecting it into every internet search where I never asked is wasteful and stupid.
TheMadCodger@piefed.social āØ14ā© āØhoursā© ago
I donāt know if you use their Assistant, but you can limit it to specific sources. The first option after the entire web is the fediverse. They also have the small web, which just shows you things made by actual humans, not something trying to sell you something.