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How do people find good information on the internet these days?
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I’ve switched over to a paid search engine, kagi.com. There are no ads and the results are better than DDG.
Ridiculous pricing (unless you pick the Ultimate plan for 25 bucks a month you pay per individual searches), the "Why do we need an account" link leads to 404 and "example searches" that totally aren't curated.
Yeah, I'm gonna pass. DDG is great anyway. The only times it doesn't really find what I want, Google doesn't find shit either.
If you’re not paying for it, you are not the customer, but the product. You most likely fit into the $5 or $10 plan. Here’s the page you’re looking for: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html
While that's generally a good way of thinking to stay alert, it's not a dogma. It discredits the whole, vast FOSS ecosystem, most prominently the Linux kernel, or services like Wikipedia that don't sell your data and rely solely on community contributions and donations.
DDG finances itself via non-personalized ads that aren't very annoying. They won't become a trillion dollar company that way but can get by.
Fair. By similar logic, don’t discredit the whole paid ecosystem, when you’re used to getting something for free. Kagi has no ads, no trackers, and listens to their users. Their search results and feature set is better than DDG.
You know that I didn't. I explained why I'm not interested in their service, so why do you try to convince me so hard? Do you get provisions or something?
Paying for a search engine is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard lol. DDG is just better and I question what you use to guage better results, especially since you already spent money and are already susceptible to bias.
If you’re not paying for it, you are the product. Don’t knock it til you try it.
That's a very black and white view of the world and is not true.
What, to try things before you dismiss them as dumb?
I have a super secret search engine that reads your mind for only $20/mo. You wanna try?
Sure, if there’s a free trial (Kagi has one). Though if it’s from you, probably not 😉
Feel free to scammed by an account based search engine that won't even work in private browsing