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What search engine do you use? (and why?) (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by pumpkin to c/[email protected]

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I'll go first. I've used a lot of search engines, I used duckduckgo for quite some time but found their search results kinda bad. I'm currently using ecosia the search results are similar to ddg's but at least I'm planting trees, so there's that.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Kagi. Yes, it's paid and the pricing structure is really meh, but:

Actual privacy
No BS like with DDG
AI features (like a "quick answer" feature that's really useful)
Has its own index along with others
Search results are great, probably better than DDG's
"Lenses" (basically narrow results by a set of sites)
Devs are pretty cool

[–] pumpkin 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't know it was privacy focused or that they were building their own index, that's really cool. Do you think it's worth the money?

[–] zarquon 3 points 1 year ago

It's only a few bucks a month. I think so.

The only thing I don't like is needing to be logged in to search. That always feels like a huge invasion of privacy. The at least claim that they don't log search contents though

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