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Introducing Waterfox Private Search (Beta) (www.waterfox.net)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kagi was appealing to me as well, especially the quality of their results. However the requirement for a user profile (allowing them to build a profile based on your searches) and their involvement with AI soured me.

Would possibly pay for a search engine if it could somehow avoid the above pitfalls.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, the CEO of Kagi being hyped about AI made me worried about its future as well. I think you can disable all of that, but I want a search engine that is being built by people whose goal is to help me find things that real people, and real people only, have written.

    With a paid search engine, it's hard to see a way around the problem of needing an account, unfortunately. Maybe it could just be an API key? Mullvad VPN does something like that. You have no username or password, just a long ID that you need to keep secret. And they are disposable -- you can just stop using it and buy a different API key next month.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    On this note, I've been having a decent run with Qwant. No AI chatbot, seems to be referencing some of the big indexes but also recently partnered with Eccosia to start working on building an independent index.

    Mojeek was underwhelming but I'll try it again

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