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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Kagi is a paid service and feels weird to pay for a search engine, but things have felt so much better since I tried them out months ago.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    I don't know if you use their Assistant, but you can limit it to specific sources. The first option after the entire web is the fediverse. They also have the small web, which just shows you things made by actual humans, not something trying to sell you something.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    I pay for Metager and i do really recommend it. You pay a pittance per search while being free of the crap that infests the net. Kagi comes with it's own set of issues.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I’ll look into Metager as this is the first I’ve heard of it.

    What set of issues do you see with Kagi? It’s the best I’ve encountered as of late, but if there’s more I should consider; I’d like to learn.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I mainly find their CEO problematic, and their focus on AI does not bode well for the future.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you for sharing. I do now recall a couple of the items you addressed, and I’ll have to keep others in mind.

    We can’t have anything nice… google, digg, Reddit, github, Kagi, proton mail. —at one point in time these were good. The rot or trajectory of rot seems inevitable.

    I’m not anti AI, but it doesn’t need to be in everything all the time. It shouldn’t obfuscate data sources. It shouldn’t be allowed to consume and gather everything breaking laws that would apply to any individual and ought to be enforced for any corporate entity.

    Pointing an AI at a larger company’s documentation or feeding a local one a largish manual and using it to figure out how or why 2, 3, or 4 parts work together has been useful for me in the past. Again where I can then get to the data to learn for myself.

    Letting the pattern recognization machine (AI) assess a logfile or 3 that are intertwined to help find issues has been helpful.

    Injecting it into every internet search where I never asked is wasteful and stupid.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Just wanted to make sure you know that this isn't my blog.

    I agree. Machine learning is something very useful! It's sad that the moment a computer was able to spit out coherent sentences, humanity lost their minds. I specifically have a grudge against Altman and Amodei - the intentionally misleading statements suggestive of this being the way of getting an AGI really did a number on society.

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