Kagi Search releases first version of a Lemmy/Kbin search lens
Kagi Search releases first version of a Lemmy/Kbin search lens
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I've been using Kagi for a while and it's nice to see them embrace the Threadiverse.
When I signed up and they asked me how I heard about them I said a Lemmy post so I'm going to go ahead and take 100% credit for this.
But seriously, that's pretty cool.
I never saw anything related to Kagi until I joined here, so good job lemmings (I'm not a user of such service though, but definitely would consider it).
Awesome! It's great to see some positive innovation in the search engine space, for a change.
That's awesome! Kagi is so worth it.
They just added the homophobic (or at least the CEO) Brave browser's search engine as a source and I don't know whether to feel unhappy. I'm paying a bit to Brave monthly, but then again I was paying API fees to Google too.
There is no ethical consumption in capitalism. The best you can do is try and make sure your primary contact points with the system are good but once you get more than a step or two into the food chain there will always be dirt.
Especially if you're going to the level of personal beliefs of executives. I guarantee you gave more money to a dozen people way worse than him before lunch today than he'll make in a year off your Kagi searches.
I just can't get over the fact to pay for a search engine.
Please convince me otherwise.
At work, as an engineer, I have been able to find answers to obscure problems very quickly and easily via Kagi. To me that is easily worth spending $10 a month, rather than spending hours digging through junk on Google or DDG to find what I’m looking for (or never find it in some cases).
I also find being able to so easily adjust the priority of results to be awesome. For example, some sites like amazon, Home Depot, and Audible, I want the canadian sites always over the american ones. So i can lower the priority of .com and raise .ca with two clicks.
That's how I justify it, if it saves me time at work then that's worth money to me. $10 a month isn't that much, and since I've been trying to reduce my reliance on Google it's even easier to justify the cost. I've been a customer for a few months now and have been really happy with it so far, it's a better experience than Google search.
Sign up for the trial and see. I was really worried that I'd blast through the base sunscription's number of monthly searches, so I started counting the number of DDG searches I did a month. It was barely within Kagi's, so I signed up. The awesome thing is that their results are better to the point that I use fewer queries now.
It costs resources to run a search engine. If the search engine you're using is great and free, either someone else is paying for it, or it's funded by debt, which means it will get enshitified over time to repay it. If someone else is paying for it and the service is sustainable, you're good. If not, then it's inevitably going to turn to shit. If you're okay with chasing the latest service that's not enshitified yet, then you're fine, so long as new options keep showing up. If you're not okay with that, or the options dry up, you might want to consider paying for one that will remain great over the long term. If there's a lesson I've learned from the Reddit fiasco last year and the general enshitification trend, it's that good services cost money and I should pay for the ones I appreciate and can afford. Lemmy is one such service. Kagi is another even if I prefer it were open source and community run.
I wouldn't mind hosting my own search engine. But I'll give it a go for a month or two. The 300 results seem generous enough
I'm actually excited about this. Generally like Kagi, and lots of people have wanted someone to try and tackle lemmy searches.
this is actually awesome, i hope this helps lemmy to grow in terms of page ranking and seo so that non kagi users can eventually find lemmy too
That's great! I didn't catch that. The kagi search experience just keeps improving.
Is there something similar to this for Brave goggles?
Lemmy is pretty anti-Brave. They can go stuff it.
I tried making my own lens when I first started using Kagi/Lemmy but it was kinda tedious. Happy to hear Kagi themselves are incorporating it.
Nice. This'll make next month's receipt from Kagi seem a little smaller.