Welcome to Kagi, the paid search engine full of surprises, which today opened an account in the Fediverse!
@kagihq is the very interesting project for a paid search engine, without tracers and with an accuracy in identifying results such as to exclude all Google spam.
Those who believe that #Kagi’s costs are too high, should reflect on a small detail: if Google lets all those searches be done “for free”, who pays those costs? The answer might seem simple: “advertisers”.
Yet this would be an incomplete answer: like saying that rain is caused by clouds!
In reality, those costs are paid by users, by being milked and letting Google extract their “value”, a bit like in the human farm in Matrix…
We first heard about Kagi on the @lealternative website (unfortunately, since then the prices have increased a lot, raising many doubts about the sustainability of the project) and recently Cory Doctorow also talked about it on @pluralistic
In any case, we are really happy that a service like Kagi’s, effective and respectful of users’ privacy, has landed here in the #Fediverse.
Fuck that. You must be retarded to pay for searching the web.
If something is free, you’re the product in almost all cases.
Don’t care.
You must be retarded to willingly become a product
Don’t care.
that’s alright, I’m just playing
Agreed, if from a corporation. FOSS services are usually also gratis, and can be compiled from source if not.
True. Edited my comment to be more accurate :)
Like the fediverse? Like SearxNG? Like Wikipedia?
I know you’ve said “almost”, but there’s a free search engine in there where you’re not the product…