Welcome to Kagi, the paid search engine full of surprises, which today opened an account in the Fediverse!

@fediverse

@kagihq is the very interesting project for a paid search engine, without tracers and with an accuracy in identifying results such as to exclude all Google spam.

Those who believe that #Kagi’s costs are too high, should reflect on a small detail: if Google lets all those searches be done “for free”, who pays those costs? The answer might seem simple: “advertisers”.

Yet this would be an incomplete answer: like saying that rain is caused by clouds!

In reality, those costs are paid by users, by being milked and letting Google extract their “value”, a bit like in the human farm in Matrix…

We first heard about Kagi on the @lealternative website (unfortunately, since then the prices have increased a lot, raising many doubts about the sustainability of the project) and recently Cory Doctorow also talked about it on @pluralistic

In any case, we are really happy that a service like Kagi’s, effective and respectful of users’ privacy, has landed here in the #Fediverse.

mastodon.social/@kagihq/113074…

  • willya@lemmyf.uk
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    2 months ago

    I use and prefer Kagi myself but what does this have to do with this community?

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      2 months ago

      I can only speak for myself, but I like to keep posted when important people and organizations are opening accounts on the Fediverse. :)

      It’s funny that Kagi included “fediverse forums” functionality in their search before they decided to join Mastodon - one would think the search functionality required a bit more.

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      2 months ago

      It’s hip to like Kagi because it’s not Google.

      I think I stopped paying for Kagi at the third or fourth controversy I heard about, I can’t remember which one. I wasn’t exactly happy about the implication that paying for Kagi means giving money to the bigot founder of Brave.

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        2 months ago

        Every complaint I’ve heard about the owner has been ridiculous. I don’t know about the bigotry though. It’s better and has been since it wasn’t hip if it’s actually hip now. I’m swapping between it and my own searxng instance.