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Kagi search engine releases a "lens" to search lemmy/kbin instances (kagifeedback.org)

submitted 10 months ago by Cyberflunk@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

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[-] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago

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

[-] snaggen@programming.dev 38 points 10 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?

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago

The issue people have with that is not adding a new indexer besides Google, but the values the people behind Brave represent. Customers apparently don't like financially supporting a homophobic asshole.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

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

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