A lens for Kbin / Lemmy instances (or ActivityPub in general) - Kagi Feedback
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With the Reddit situation going on right now, many users are moving to Kbin or Lemmy instances. how some call it, it...

Kagi is a commercial search engine with some pretty awesome features. This one helps Lemmy users.

  • Katlah@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Meanwhile Kagi partnering with Brave… I think I’ll stick with SearXNG (which also can do this, and is free).

    • snaggen@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      They explain a bit more about what that means here: https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave/75

      TL;DR They use multiple sources for search results besides their own indexer, the most obvious one is Google. To lessen dependence on one single search provider they have been adding other sources, one of them is now Brave. That is the whole thing.

      On Dec 26, Kagi started including search results from Brave search index, after we previously added Mojeek and Yandex earlier in the year. Brave has a public search api and we currently implemented it for about 10% of queries as a first test (same as any other API we use, there is no mutual development or anything of the sorts). This was announced in our Dec 28 public changelog. Approximately a week later on Jan 5 after several posts on social media about ‘Brave partnership’ the situation escalated.]

      So, if you do not like to use Google in the first place, I don’t really understand why lessening the dependence on google would be a bad thing?

      • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        9 months ago

        Don’t try to bring logic here. The hivemind can’t be beaten.

    • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 months ago

      This is my first time hearing of SearXNG. Did some poking. They don’t have their own engine tech all all, eh? Just riding on top of other results?

      • sudneo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Yes, it is a metasearch engine. It’s basically like proxy+aggregator or multiple engines.

        • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
          01·
          9 months ago

          Ah, pity. It probably doesn’t scale well then.

    • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      It’s free just because someone else pays for you (I’m one of these "someone"s, I own one of the instances at searx. space). Unless you host you own instance at your own expenses.

      The anti-Brave idiocy/hysteria is getting out of hand on the Fedi. And everybody knows it’s mostly virtue signaling anyway.