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submitted 11 months ago by leninmummy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding "reddit" or whatever internet community to the results?

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[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 28 points 11 months ago

The problem here is so many people are used to tech running at a loss on the books and/subsiding operating costs by selling customer data and analytics.

The reality is running tech companies is hard and expensive. The money here goes straight back into development. It’s just out of beta since march, and they have increased their quotas since I have been a customer.

But people are spoiled by free where you aren’t a customer. You are the product. If you are cool with that it’s fine. This isn’t the product for you.

For me, I like the idea and the searches are better than DDG/bing and startpage/google. So it’s worth the cost personally. I would rather pay that than say…Amazon prime where I’m both the customer and the product.

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta

[-] Misconduct@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago

I will personally always be against any paywalls on information but to each their own I guess.

[-] jocanib@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's not a paywall on information. What you're paying for is a better search engine and better privacy. People have to be paid to provide you with that and, if you don't want to pay them with cash, you can go and pay another search engine with your time and data.

[-] wings@lemmy.perthchat.org 3 points 11 months ago

So in other words, it's a paywall on information.

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 3 points 11 months ago

Well no. The information is still there. It’s an index of that information

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