• thejevans
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    810 months ago

    I recently switched to kagi, too. Couldn’t be happier.

    • @SoftestVoid@beehaw.org
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      410 months ago

      New Kagi user here too, been very happy so far. Though it turns out I do a lot of searching and blew through the 300 searches in the $5 plan in like 2 weeks…

      • Beej Jorgensen
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        110 months ago

        I just signed up with them, too. They were able to get me a link to the age of a small, nondescript lava flow near my town on the third hit. (5000 years old! A youngster!) All the other search engines gave me unrelated crap.

        I have a hard stop set up for when I hit $10, so I’ll switch tiers if it comes to that. 😅

        I don’t necessarily like paying for search, but I couldn’t take ad-driven search any longer. Big waste of time getting through the chaff.

      • @Byter@lemmy.one
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        10 months ago

        Make an effort to use bangs and I bet you’ll stay under the limit. Edit: bang searches don’t count towards the limit

        Knowing I wanted a result from a certain site but using the search engine to get there was a (bad) habit I brought over from Google.

        !imdb barbie

        !w mattel

        There’s even custom bangs, which is something DDG doesn’t give you: !libgen some book

          • @Byter@lemmy.one
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            110 months ago

            But they don’t allow bangs for sites that do illegal things like copyright infringement. Libgen was my example.

            • viq
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              010 months ago

              @Byter allowing illegal stuff *and* taking money doesn’t bode that well for their longevity.

              • @Byter@lemmy.one
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                110 months ago

                Custom bangs are private to the user. It’s not dissimilar to saving a bookmark in your browser, except your bookmarks are hosted by someone else.

                It doesn’t have to be about legality either. Maybe you like a service that is being protested by DDG for whatever reason.

    • Narrrz
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      210 months ago

      I wonder if the verb Google will stay with us when its origin is lost in history