It would be funny, if it weren’t painfully true. DuckDuckGo sucks just as bad as Google. I hear there is a good search engine, but it costs money to use. Shocking. Maybe they are all the same company, making shitty free services to try to steer you to paying for better services.

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

may I ask what it is?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not the one you replied to but they're probably talking about Kagi. I crunched the numbers a while back and the higher tiers were kind of hard to make worthwhile, however iirc they simplified the pricing slightly since then.

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I heard about this. Is it rly that much better?

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've been using it for a few months. It's good. I get the official docs for my first result using OP's query. 300 queries, their starting tier was not enough for my use. I was using DDG before and like it well enough. I'm not sure if it's worth it but I like the idea of paying for services I use. I stopped using Google years ago because of all the captchas I had to fill due to my VPN

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm cool with paying for quality, ad-free service but I feel like they're giving way too little for what they're asking. 300 searches a month? What is this AOL?

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Agreed, I switched to their unlimited tier pretty quickly

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they are all the same company, making shitty free services to try to steer you to paying for better services.

Do you expect free services with no catch? You either pay with money or with something else

[–] astreus@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You literally sent that from a FOSS platform...

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I give lemmy money. Not so for google

[–] astreus@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to give either money and there is the option to give both money.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Someone has to pay lemmy. If you don't, it's comparable to a free tier of a paid service. When I say "you" I don't mean every single person. There's no option to pay for google search that I'm aware of.

[–] jnk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not true because we're getting the same experience whether we pay or not. The same kinda goes for google, they have other services you could pay to support them (please don't), and it won't make the search engine better. Big difference is one of them is actually free (full meaning of the word) and the other one is just usable without paying.

You're still using a free platform to say good free software is not a thing tho, kinda weird.

[–] KuraiWolfGaming@pawb.social 0 points 6 months ago

Nobody has to pay for anything Lemmy or ActivityPub related because its FOSS.

That means Free Open Source Software.

As in, you can get and use the source code yourself without paying a single cent.