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 itâs own set of issues.
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NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠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 â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Iâll look into Metager as this is the first Iâve heard of it.
What set of issues do you see with Kagi? Itâs the best Iâve encountered as of late, but if thereâs more I should consider; Iâd like to learn.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I mainly find their CEO problematic, and their focus on AI does not bode well for the future.
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Thank you for sharing. I do now recall a couple of the items you addressed, and Iâll have to keep others in mind.
We canât have anything nice⌠google, digg, Reddit, github, Kagi, proton mail. âat one point in time these were good. The rot or trajectory of rot seems inevitable.
Iâm not anti AI, but it doesnât need to be in everything all the time. It shouldnât obfuscate data sources. It shouldnât 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 companyâs 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 â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I donât 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.