• @[email protected]
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          421 days ago

          for me it’s much better. I don’t think they directly use Bing search by the way, just their index. the algorithm should be theirs if I’m not wrong.

        • @[email protected]
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          121 days ago

          Using duck duck go is pretty good for me, if I go to bing.com, My results are horrible. Of course it’s the same result set, but I expect I’m getting less algorithmic shuffling on DuckDuckGo.

      • @majestictechie
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        Gotta say, Kagi has been great. It’s helped me a lot in work just by Being able to prioritise search Results and rank certain sites higher

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        Kagi has an AI search option which IIRC is on by default – or at least was at one point – where it’ll try to also synthesize an answer and stick it in a box with the results, but you can just turn it off in your preferences. I have it off.

        There may be a day when we have AI assistants that are so good that their summaries are better than looking at the original source, but I’d put a high bar on that, and think that we’ve got a way to go.

        • @[email protected]
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          723 days ago

          It’s off by default, but activated when you end your search query with a question mark. That option can be turned off.

      • @[email protected]
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        022 days ago

        so much this. its summary option also lets me avoid any ad infested page. also great for searching videos and relevant stack overflow results.

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      922 days ago

      I started paying for Kagi. Works like Google in 2019. Fast, useful and customizable. One of the best features is hiding results from shit sites like Reddit, which blocks me for using a VPN. $10 well spent just to have that option.

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        322 days ago

        It is the best on the market but unfortunately they just use Google underneath plus their own blog index. And at least to me it seems it isn’t going in a better direction.

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        why would you block reddit results? it’s often useful (at least when related to tech, possibly other topics too). I would recommend to install libredirect instead, which redirects reddit to a libreddit/redlib frontend

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        222 days ago

        One of the best features is hiding results from shit sites

        I do that with the Firefox plugin “Block or Highlight Search Engine Results” from pistom (on github).
        Upside: I can see what was hidden in case I need that and it really helps with visibility.

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        121 days ago

        I’ve found the $5 a month tier to be just about right. There have been a few months I’ve gone over, but they make that super easy to deal with: they just change the subscription renewal date and you start your next month a few days early.