Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.

Cool, but I will still prefer to use duckduckgo and type Lemmy in the end of my query.

If someone is interested about Kagi vs Google (made by Kagi): https://mastodon.social/@kagihq/113971972586118949

Kagi is shaping up to be really cool with this and the Orion browser supporting firefox/chrome extensions on ios.

Just came across https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html . Seems like there are more good reasons to avoid it besides it also using Yandex as an index.

heres to the painfully slow and gradual rebirth of the internet.

I think when I tried them out a while back they also had a usenet search? Can anyone clarify on this?

The mandatory signing in to perform any search is a deal breaker. Privacy first

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

Been using this for a month or so its nice

I've been using Kagi for the last year+.

Personally, I wish they'd tone down the AI stuff that ruined Google, but at least you can turn most of it off.

Their results are okay, a little better than Bing, but obviously they're limited by their existing index providers, I wish they'd run their own spiders and crawl for their own data, since I think Bing fails on a lot of coverage of obscure websites.

In general I find the weighting of modern indexes to be subpar, though the SEO industry has made it a hard problem to tackle, I wish more small websites and forums were higher ranked, and AI slop significantly de rated.

I’ve been using Kagi for about a month now, and I think I’m gonna stick with it. Paying with dollars instead of data/attention feels more healthy for everyone involved.

(Fully realizing, of course, that there’s nothing stopping them from doing both, and that’s why we need better laws. Voting with your wallet will never be a complete solution… but it is something I can do right now.)

It’s had this for quite some time

Obligatory mention that Kagi also use the Russian search index Yandex. This aids the Russian economy and the Russian war effort.

Edit: I recommend reading my in depth explanation here https://lemmy.world/comment/15520236

I use the Kagi forum toggle so. much.

That's nice indeed! Thanks for sharing.

It's had that for a while now. It was the main reason I'd pipe up to recommend Kagi, but now there's also their search anonymizer and tor endpoint.

Neat feature. Any word on if Kagi has ties to the Kremlin?

Why can't it just be automatic?

Does anyone else's search on lemmy actually work as expected? I feel like it never finds anything really relevant. I can search for audio interfaces for example and all the first results are about software in general and not actually the hardware component.

Makes sense they advertise here enough

I think brave (*search) let's you do the same thing with their goggles feature which let's users make custom search filters. I could be mistaken though

(and yes I know Brave as a company comes with baggage. Pretty much all of the search options do unfortunately :/)

Edit: I'm taking specifically about Brave search. I cant see any reason I'd ever want to use Brave browser frankly.

Is Kagi big? If they are, does this mean we’ll see an influx of users from this?