I’ve been using Kagi for a while and it’s nice to see them embrace the Threadiverse.

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    When I signed up and they asked me how I heard about them I said a Lemmy post so I’m going to go ahead and take 100% credit for this.

    But seriously, that’s pretty cool.

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        I’ve posted about lemmy on the Kagi discord so I’m gonna go ahead and take your credit

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          1 year ago

          I heard about Kagi here so can I take your credentials to avoid paying $5/mo for search results

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      I never saw anything related to Kagi until I joined here, so good job lemmings (I’m not a user of such service though, but definitely would consider it).

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    Awesome! It’s great to see some positive innovation in the search engine space, for a change.

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    this is actually awesome, i hope this helps lemmy to grow in terms of page ranking and seo so that non kagi users can eventually find lemmy too

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    I’m actually excited about this. Generally like Kagi, and lots of people have wanted someone to try and tackle lemmy searches.

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    I just can’t get over the fact to pay for a search engine.

    Please convince me otherwise.

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      Sign up for the trial and see. I was really worried that I’d blast through the base sunscription’s number of monthly searches, so I started counting the number of DDG searches I did a month. It was barely within Kagi’s, so I signed up. The awesome thing is that their results are better to the point that I use fewer queries now.

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        I’d add - sign up for the trial, and only use it when you need it. You don’t need Kagi for the weather or shop opening times or whatever

        I’ve still not used the 100 free searches after two months

        When you actually need it, for shopping or technical stuff, it’s miles better than Google now

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      It costs resources to run a search engine. If the search engine you’re using is great and free, either someone else is paying for it, or it’s funded by debt, which means it will get enshitified over time to repay it. If someone else is paying for it and the service is sustainable, you’re good. If not, then it’s inevitably going to turn to shit. If you’re okay with chasing the latest service that’s not enshitified yet, then you’re fine, so long as new options keep showing up. If you’re not okay with that, or the options dry up, you might want to consider paying for one that will remain great over the long term. If there’s a lesson I’ve learned from the Reddit fiasco last year and the general enshitification trend, it’s that good services cost money and I should pay for the ones I appreciate and can afford. Lemmy is one such service. Kagi is another even if I prefer it were open source and community run.

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        I wouldn’t mind hosting my own search engine. But I’ll give it a go for a month or two. The 300 results seem generous enough

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    I tried making my own lens when I first started using Kagi/Lemmy but it was kinda tedious. Happy to hear Kagi themselves are incorporating it.

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    They just added the homophobic (or at least the CEO) Brave browser’s search engine as a source and I don’t know whether to feel unhappy. I’m paying a bit to Brave monthly, but then again I was paying API fees to Google too.

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      There is no ethical consumption in capitalism. The best you can do is try and make sure your primary contact points with the system are good but once you get more than a step or two into the food chain there will always be dirt.

      Especially if you’re going to the level of personal beliefs of executives. I guarantee you gave more money to a dozen people way worse than him before lunch today than he’ll make in a year off your Kagi searches.