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The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email (hackers.town)

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 45 points 7 months ago (14 children)

I literally learnt about Kagi like a week ago from a Cory Doctorow's post. I was like oh, cool, someone there to fight google.

[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Ah man, same. Thought I'd give it a go after reading about if from Cory...

Honestly, for what I search for, DDG is sufficient, and it's not gonna hassle me about subscriptions.

What I'd really like to find is something like a pihole for search, where you have your blocklist, cache of things you've searched already (your own mini search engine?), and then a fallback engine (DDG, bing, Google, whatever) for things it doesn't already know.

I dunno. Search and AI botshit is everywhere, and it's gonna keep getting worse. Self-hosting tools seems to be the only way to take control back.

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

@shadow @V0ldek > What I’d really like to find is something like a pihole for search, where you have your blocklist, cache of things you’ve searched already (your own mini search engine?), and then a fallback engine (DDG, bing, Google, whatever) for things it doesn’t already know.

I think SearXNG sort of fulfills this, from what I've heard? It's more or less a self-hosted search engine that can combine indexes from various other engines, and I presume that means you can set your own rules and filters and such. There are public instances as well.

[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 7 months ago

I will check out self hosting searxng

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago

The searxng public instances tend to be a bit shit.

They're slow. Maybe only several seconds but that feels like an eternity in 2024.

They also frequently seem to be blocked by the services they're scraping.

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