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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Kagi right now but search.marginalia.nu and YaCy seem really cool. Hell, I might package YaCy and write a module for it for NixOS :^)

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m trying Kagi now but I’m having mixed feelings. Search results are mixed at best for some pretty commonplace topics (e.g. Starfield quests or breaking news).

Also, the search limit (for the trial and basic plans) stresses me and I find myself second guessing whether I really need to search for something. I like it but I haven’t come across a “wow!” moment that makes me want to abandon DDG, despite the transparency and privacy-focus.

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

what transparency and "privacy focus" are you talking about?

They haven't released a single line of code and they required you to be logged in, which makes you uniquely identifiable, and if you paid using credit card, then you gave away your personal identifiable information.