Anyone paying for Kagi to search the web?
868 sats \ 8 comments \ @south_korea_ln 29 Dec 2023 tech
Kagi is a paid alternative to Google search, without the annoying ads and the ability to block certain websites to show up, focus on smaller niche results, etc...
Are you willing to pay for this?
I would be willing to pay for an alternative to the annoying youtube recommendation algorithm (oh, you watched this one video by this comedian? Let me stuff your face with it everyday for the next month? oh, you watched a DIY video about how to repair your oven? I'm sure you want to keep repairing your oven for the next month with these 99 other videos about oven repair)...
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140 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 29 Dec 2023
I recently switched from duckduckgo to kagi. I noticed that DDG started censoring search results to be more woke so I switched. Kagi has been pretty good so far, has all the same features I used in DDG.
I don't mind paying, one of my most used sites and it is fairly cheap.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @elysia 29 Dec 2023
You get 100 free searches with each email you sign up with
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @pillar 29 Dec 2023
I am. I am very happy with it.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @AJ1992 29 Dec 2023
No. This sounds stupid to be honest.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 29 Dec 2023
Yeah, I'm on the fence too about paying for now, but trying it out now with the initial free searches. Google gradually got so much worse over the years. Infested with SEO-optimized shitty results.
It seems to be quite popular in the HN community.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @AJ1992 29 Dec 2023
https://support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155764?hl=en
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AJ1992 29 Dec 2023
You can turn a lot of the ad stuff in Google off in your ad settings...the ad tracking stuff and personalized ads and shit. You gotta go deep into your Google ad settings but they are there because I have most of them changed from standard
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eobard 29 Dec 2023 freebie
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