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The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email (hackers.town)

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[-] MetaCubed@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Can I sincerely ask what we're supposed to use instead?

Kagi has given me the best search experience ive had in at least a decade, I'm not going back to the enshittification engine, and everything else is just bing in fancy wrapping paper. Is there something else like Kagi? Is there something like DDG or Searx that arent just slightly better bing?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 32 points 7 months ago

Feel entirely free to use Kagi, just remember that it's run by an idiot and could blow up at any moment.

[-] MetaCubed@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

Apologies, my question wasn't rhetorical, I was genuinely looking for suggestions. I don't want to use kagi if this is who is running it... BUT all the alternatives that I'm personally aware of are not options for replacement.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 7 months ago

basically the whole area is gallopping enshittification. Until this blowup, I had seriously been considering Kagi too.

[-] MetaCubed@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Guess it's time to spin up a local search indexer...

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