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What search engine do you use? (and why?) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by pumpkin@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'll go first. I've used a lot of search engines, I used duckduckgo for quite some time but found their search results kinda bad. I'm currently using ecosia the search results are similar to ddg's but at least I'm planting trees, so there's that.

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[–] ggt@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Kagi. Yes, it's paid and the pricing structure is really meh, but:

Actual privacy
No BS like with DDG
AI features (like a "quick answer" feature that's really useful)
Has its own index along with others
Search results are great, probably better than DDG's
"Lenses" (basically narrow results by a set of sites)
Devs are pretty cool

[–] howdy@thesimplecorner.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

For some reason the thought of a paid search engine has never even crossed by mind before. I've been using DDG but this has peaked my curiosity. Thank you.

Edit: The pricing is... very... meh.

[–] ggt@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It is very meh. But I think if you're able to, it's well worth the price. Just don't get the standard plan. That one is god awful.

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