I apologize if this is old news, but I just noticed it. It looks like Kagi has added Fediverse Forums as a default Web search option.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Cool. Wish more search engines would do that.

    But, as far as Kagi goes, it’s a paid service and it’s an American company. So I won’t be using them.

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        2 months ago

        Any specific reasons? I’m a very happy Kagi user and the founder is active on their discord and seems like a really nice guy.

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      Writing them off as an American company is totally valid, but I’m happy to pay for a quality service because it keeps ads out and lets me vote with my money. It’s really not much to cling to psychologically, but it helps. When I and others completely degoogle our lives it moves no needles at GoogHQ, but paying subscriber metrics are a KPI discussed in every board room in the world.

      • clove@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        Lile they say, perfection is the enemy of privacy! Kagi has been the best as an engine out of all I’ve tried. If a better competitors comes up, I’ll give em my money.

    • Wolfram@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Not using Kagi because its an American company is valid. But people are too used to products that are free because they make the person using them the product. There is still a transaction with a free product.

      Kagi is not free because they respect your privacy and don’t sell your data.

      • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I’d happily pay for search, but Kagi is way too expensive.

        10 searches a day, for $5/month? (US)

        Like, that is way too much.

        I can receive thousands and send thousands of emails per day for that price. Is search really that much more expensive?

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        I don’t use them or never read their privacy policy so i don’t know. But it’s not because it’s a paid service that company won’t use your data to sell it for more profit. That’s EXTRA profit for them, so why the hell not. And them being based in the US means I already can’t trust them with their poor privacy laws.

      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        There are plenty of paid products that do not respect your privacy and sell your data.

        And there’s free products that do respect your privacy and don’t make you the product. They are community products.

        For instance I offer my bandwidth and storage to thousands of strangers to share torrents and they do the same to me. No secondhand transactions happening.

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        2 months ago

        I have donated €1500 to opensource software projects and paid a whopping €7 for software. These (privacy respecting) projects got my money because they weren’t transaction based. Capitalism is not the only way.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        But people are too used to products that are free because they make the person using them the product.

        That’s definitely one model for operating a public service, but its far from the only one.

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    2 months ago

    It’s had it for at least months but even if its years old it’s still a cool feature and deserves attention

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        lets see if federation can keep the hawks away. they will certainly be trying (again) once we hit critical mass.

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        2 months ago

        I mean the idea is to appear organic, it’s not very effective advertising otherwise. It’s free real estate there is no reason they would not be doing it.

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            2 months ago

            Not trying to say there is no organic discussion, but I would be shocked if they were ignoring this avenue for getting the word out. It’s basically free advertising and advertising is generally expensive.

            • Steve@communick.news
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              2 months ago

              If they aren’t paying anyone is it advertising? I’m not sure what you’re actually talking about anymore. Maybe I never did