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“sure kagi is an extremely unethical company that sends part of everyone’s subscription fees to Russia for search indexing and Musk so grok can enable the AI horseshit nobody but kagi’s CEO wants, but what alternative do you recommend” I recommend not being part of the problem for once in your life, you fucking shithead
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@zzt cool to see you’re putting passion into hating the tech status quo, I’m right with you there.
What search are you using? What are you recommending as an alternative?
@benschwarz my guy, you own an SEO and analytics platform????
anyway here’s my recommendation: https://mas.to/@zzt/116629983678086038 you’re welcome
@zzt I own a web performance monitoring platform, which collects CrUX metrics that inform Googles ranking algorithm. Not sure what that has to do with my question.
I’ve screamed from many mountains and woodlands, but the web still sucks. I’ll try again later just in case.
@zzt well this fucking shithead uses Kagi because it fucking works.
Let's not let perfect become the enemy of the good here. I am in no way saying the CEO is a good man, but the values of the product itself are aligned with my own.
@jaredwhite oh I see, I was meant to read “ResistanceNet ✊” in the same voice as one reads “The Aristocrats” at the end of the joke. my mistake.
there are no good search engines left and paying for kagi makes that situation worse
go use one of the small ones that sucks at search and help make it better. don’t come on here and roleplay like you’re doing us a fucking favor by paying kagi’s token bill
it’s very funny to me that I keep getting subtooted by confirmed shitheads all going “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” when I’m telling you to not get hung up on the current quality of the search results of the smaller engines because technical merit doesn’t outweigh morality
don’t let the imperfect results you might get from a non-kagi, non-google search engine be the enemy of not being a fucking shithead
“don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” I said, audibly gagging at the search results I got from mojeek
the “the results from this aren’t as good as kagi, have you tried my favorite paid search engine kagi?” crowd’s got a weird fucking grasp on reality, but maybe you need that if you’re gonna flood every thread on here about AI in search with posts pretending kagi, an AI company, is the anti-AI choice
weird how “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of good” is wheeled out when I bring up ethics but it didn’t come to mind for any of these guys when they decided kagi’s supposedly amazing search results made every free, open source, or ethical alternative unworkable
@zzt
and if you want to pay for a search engine: maybe uruky?
the results are okay and get better with personalization, the philosophy of the couple behind seems nice. and the UI is perfectly boring (no AI, just some links …)
for the curious: https://uruky.com
interview with bruno: https://theprivacydad.com/interview-with-the-engineer-of-uruky-a-private-search-engine/
@hotzenplotz @zzt is that another Tolkien company name
@davidgerard @hotzenplotz @zzt Its close to “Uruk Hai”, but I have no idea if it’s inspired by that. I can’t find anything when searching that isn’t just the name of that search engine.
lol no, google being a notoriously unethical monopolist and our enemy doesn’t make their competition ethical and our friends
google being an AI profiteer doesn’t make kagi anti-AI
two companies at different sizes can both be bad. the smaller one can even be dependent on and propped up by companies just like google! and in kagi’s case we know it is!
my posts are targeted at adults so I figured the above didn’t need to be said but I guess not????
@zzt It's hard only being able to spend ones anger tokens on one thing at a time, isn't it? If only humans were capable of multitasking, of complexity and didn't have to recite all the things they care about from a Blockchain ledger every time they level criticism at anything.
