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Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Sounds interesting. I currently pay the 5$/month for the Kagi search engine and that works great so I'm inclined to trust them on their other ventures.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Their 'Research' AI is pretty decent too. I can get to the same ends eventually, but I can't read and digest 25 different pages and then launch another 10 follow-up searches in 15 seconds. It's summarizing and not simply inferencing so the hallucination rate is acceptably low and it also cites the sources so you can click a footnote to fact-check any important details.

    I self-host most things, but I can't self host a search engine. I much prefer paying monthly than having to fight the eternal battle against tracking and ads.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    You CAN self-host a search engine, look up searxng.

    Yes it's a metasearch engine, but so is Kagi for the most part, their own indexes don't cover everything.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    saving this comment for when i dive deeper down the rabbit hole later. at the moment i think im only self-hosting jellyfin and owntracks, and I have a couple llm models in LM studio but haven't messed with them in a while.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    searxng

    I have this on my projects lists, I've seen it recommended in a few places.

    If I'm understanding the purpose (privacy filtering for searches), Kagi is a service fitting a similar role. Kind of like Headscale vs Tailscale. Is that right?

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