As asked.

  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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    9 months ago

    My first choice is actually Kagi these days. I pay for my search provider to have some peace of mind that my search provider isn’t selling me.

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      9 months ago

      I got it not too long ago, and I love it. The results are good, and the features are what i wish all search engines had. Just not looking forward to when they sell to venture capatilists down the line, and everything becomes terrible.

      In the meantime, everyone should check out their Small Web intiative. Gives you a random blog or small website. There’s some really good articles I would have never read otherwise.

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          I loved stumbled upon! it’s got repetitive after a while, but I found a bunch of stuff I never otherwise would have

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        9 months ago

        I have also discovered very interesting blogs or site that I have then added to my RSS feed. They also offer a lens to only look within the small web, which they index themselves I think.

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        Just not looking forward to when they sell to venture capatilists down the line, and everything becomes terrible.

        Judging by their ethos so far, I don’t think that’s a goal. I’d almost say it’s a non-goal.

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          9 months ago

          I hope you’re right, but there’s plenty of well meaning projects and people that saw a large amount of money being offered and blinked.

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      9 months ago

      I used to pay for kagi, but their CEO have some opinions that I absolutely hate about how to handle some issues, and this was a deal breaker for me. Nowadays I’m using searxng

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          9 months ago

          They announced a few months ago that they would partner with Brave to surface Brave search results too. The CEO of Brave is known to be homophobic. People got mad, and Kagi’s response was that they are too small to be picky, and have to focus on search quality.

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            9 months ago

            And theres the issue someone opened on their page suggesting to include a special card on suicide related searches telling people how to find help, and the CEO dismissed saying it can be just someone curious making the search and he don’t want to “set a precedent” on showing things the user is not actively searching

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              I… think I agree with that though.

              I’m not saying there isn’t a grey area between being socially conscious or full blow libertarian, but I do think that a search engine operates much better when it is unrestricted by societal qualms.

              Look how stunted ChatGPT becomes with each new rendition, or how SDXL is far more restrictive in what it can express compared to its earlier SD1.5 models.

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            9 months ago

            And also, like, their partnership with one of the most immoral companies on this planet drive most of the search results quality from the very beginning (Google). You didn’t sign up for a morally perfect search engine.

            When people made such a huge fuss about the CEO of some minor index that Kagi also happens to use beside like 10 others being a douche, all I could do is shake my head.