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

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@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…

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    2 months ago

    First thing in their privacy statement:

    • Searches are anonymous and private to you. Kagi does not log and associate searches with an account.

    You can claim that they are lying but I personally do not think they do.

    https://kagi.com/privacy

    Google is not private and they track you on every web page, building up a profile of your searches, weather you are logged in or not.