With all the talk about privacy, people seem to be forgetting that censorship is also a major problem for today's internet.

I remember a page where people could post gossip about other people, but you weren't allowed to cuss, so people wrote things like:

Becky Jones from Jamesdale High is a total sloot. She fricked a bunch of guys and even gave them bjobs and handj's

Well, they were correct more often than wrong.

I think it might just be a joke

Thats nice to know. Their CEO is a massive right-wing dickhead. So it doesnt matter whats optional its not worth it to use in the end.

opt in

Unfortunately there is still one thing that you have to opt out of manually, and that is monetized new tab pages. It's not strictly crypto-related, and it's only like three clicks to opt-out, but can be slightly annoying if your workflow relies heavily on browser profiles like mine. Still a great browser tho.

That’s fair.

You could argue that it’s worth the money to get better results and avoid Google, but with so many companies trying to take $10 a month you have to draw the line somewhere.

No, I'm with you. $120 a year is too steep for searching for me. I like what they are trying to do but I don't think the average person will spend that much.

make it $1 per month and i'm game, i'm not paying more for a search engine than i do for email holy shit

Yea, I just think I either pay for something like Kagi, or I am subject to something like Google. I'm not sure there is a third way that pays for the servers and talent needed to deliver search results, but my imagination might just be limited.

Lol, I know how you feel. Not long ago there was suddenly a bunch of chatter about it on Lemmy and I was thinking the same thing, that it had to be marketing. But I'm a curious sort and I was so sick of bad google results so I tried it.

Now that I have used Kagi I'm convinced it was organic chatter. I really do like it, I think it's better, and if they offered money for posts I'd take that money because I'm paying $10 a month for a search engine, lol.

I thought this was a possibility at first, then I used it. The lad time is basically instant, the results are always good and it has a bunch of features with AI etc.

With Kagi I get what I want and sort through way less to no junk. With their lenses I can push reliable sources up and other sources down. I really like it.

Similar yes. Kagi has more features and no ads (because paid) but yes, it's a similar idea.

I'm finding Copilot better than any search and better than buying by itself and world's better than Google search, but it's totally not private... So anything you seem sensitive or private you just can't use it for

Hehe Bong

Unfortunately, this map isn't accurate anymore. For example it says that Startpage only uses Google search results but that's outdated. Now Startpage uses Bing and Google search results. https://www.startpage.com/privacy-please/startpage-articles/enhanced-search-results-on-startpage 'In working with Microsoft, Startpage is now incorporating Microsoft Bing search results and ads within some results pages, using a custom-built private search solution. Google search results will continue to broadly be used, but incorporating additional high-quality sources will have ongoing returns for our users'

I don't know how safe it is to use but man, their reverse image search has always impressed me. Miles better than Google's or Tineye's.

for context, the reverse r is pronounced "ya" and is a cyrillic character.

That Pokemon page is awesome though. Man, I miss the old Internet!

if you look at the repo they give thanks to:

"The commoncrawl organization for crawling the web and making the dataset readily available. Even though we have our own crawler now, commoncrawl has been a huge help in the early stages of development."

There is nothing I can find which says how much of the index is CC and how much is their own; if there's a decent amount of CC, this is originally for researchers etc. it's not the best resource in the world for a search index: https://commoncrawl.org/

That being said, as an independent search engine, it's always good to see people take on the massive task of actually building an index, not becoming a proxy.

I searched for Aleister Crowley and learned all about how he’s the secret daddy of Barbara Bush and her satanic siblings. Seems legit. /s

Best reverse image search there is yo

Why is that their logo? There's no R in Yandex.

Damn, that's my go-to and I didn't even recognize it's logo. Shows up as a Y on the site for me.

don't you worry. imma make a meme specially highlighting you :p

Wow I checked Yandex and its pretty neat. Also its Russian so your search data might be safe from US and its big tech. Would you recommend using it ?