You’re still using google?
Instead of the childishly condescending question, suggest alternatives for those who don’t know
I’ve been sticking with Kagi in the hope that it improves
Kagi looks nice! Going by how the results are pretty much the same, it looks like it’s a proxy for bing in the us. Like duckduckgo, ecosia and yahoo
It might protect you from a lot of Google’s shit show but it won’t show you good results too.
Kagi is the only usable search engine for me right now. Yes, it’s not free. I needed a whole year to convince myself to pay for searching but I finally did it and it is absolutely worth it. I’m a SE though, so searching stuff is like half my job.
kagi.com for me has been more than worth it for the price with unlimited searches.
CEO of Kagi has no boundaries and doesn’t know how to take “no” for an answer. He thinks he can just browbeat other people into agreeing with him. It’s a bad look and makes me have zero trust in Kagi as a product.
https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/kagi-ceo-s-recent-controversy/8119/2
I said elsewhere just a few days ago: These fucking techbros need to realize that sometimes shutting the fuck up and letting your products speak for themselves is the better move than trying to browbeat everyone into acceptance of your view of your products. Prelovac’s insistence on being heard by someone who has no interest in a conversation with him screams entitlement and a controlling attitude. People who can’t take no for an answer generally are not good people. Not being able to accept someone else’s lack of consent and wanting to bully them into consent is a bad fucking look, period.
When I read your post I was expecting something much worse than what you linked to.
It wasn’t really all that bad. Imo, it was 1 or 2 emails too many.
Maybe I’m a little biased because I love the product so much. It’s a fantastic search engine again and all of the AI extras add value and aren’t obnoxious like everyone else’s.
I am still happily paying for kagi even if the CEO emails people that write shitty blogs about them.
It feels like this is the only bad thing about kagi that keeps getting shared every time kagi is mentioned. Somehow it feels like one person and their followers trying to promote themselves as Karen’s more than legitimate accusations.
A CEO getting involved with the end users is not a bad thing imo
Maybe if less people sucked the dick of LLMs then it wouldn’t pervade every facet of our lives?
gemini://gemplex.space/search
a search engine for the gemini network protocol
Gemini is basically an alternative web, so it has its own protocol, own server and browser software, and an own content language (heavily inspired by Markdown).
Everything is built to be much more lightweight, so certainly in the spirit of solarpunk.
But big downside is that “the thing you want” is honestly probably not on Gemini at all, because it does not share content with the HTTP web.
That does mean that all the ads and bullshit are gone, too (and cannot be implemented beyond static images, sponsored articles and I guess, ASCII art).
But yeah, at this point, it’s most useful for reading (and writing) blog posts, and having fun with the technology itself. It does have a lovely community for that.
