• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I’ve commented about potential Kagi astroturfing here before.

    Seems likely to me.

    Their trial - too short for me - felt like a private Google w/improvements.

    Now, as a filthy freeloader, my default is DuckDuckGo. I am dissatisfied with the results and !bang out to Google (!g) about half the time. I pray DDG makes use of this data to improve their engine.

    tl;dr astroturfing vs. bad results vs. enabling the king of adware

    Gosh I need to set up SearXNG! Also “private Google” vibes. Instances here

    • lud@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Half the time?

      I switch to another search engine about 1 in 100