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Post by ki_ »

dangerlibrary wrote: post #14
ki_ wrote: post #8

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This comment has me confused and slightly concerned about what organizations you would consider credible.

News organizations are low quality by default. Their bussiness model is creating multiple articles per day and make it sound interesting, sometimes more interesting than what really happened. This so they can maximize viewer retention and therefore maximize ad-revenue. It's not really a recipe where you'll find the most accurate truth.

You can still read their websites for information, but when you google, those news website tend to fill up the first 3 pages of your results and often you find better information once you get past those websites. e.g. independant journalist blog sites or scientific papers, etc...

I also like to search back in time. e.g. when you want to learn about coronavirusses, it's better to search before january 2020. Else your results get filled with articles from journalist that never even heard of corona virusses before they wrote their article.

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Post by gnuj3 »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #9
ezekg wrote: post #3

Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi ( https://kagi.com ), which offers the same feature. :)

I have yet to find any competitor which provides its own results and is even 50% as good as Google's results. Features are nice, but for a search engine results are everything.

Kagi is even better than Google in my opinion. I’m still thinking whether I want to pay a subscription for it but it’s tempting since the results are so good. M

When I first switched from Google to DDG I found myself using g! all the time as I wasnt happy with the results, especially local such as finding a specific shop in my area etc. I dont recall using g! with Kagi, and when I was bored and compared the Kagi search result with Google to see if I was missing out, it turned to be the other way - I realised I was actually getting a much wider spectrum of results. I discovered many cool websites and blogs I never knew excited thanks to it or rather thanks to the fact that they show you what’s relevant to your search unlike Google that shows what they think is.

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Post by Belphemur »

ayushnix wrote: post #17
Belphemur wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being using it through the beta and moved toward their annual subscription :) Also you can give more importance to some website in the search result, create your own search template. It's so feature rich, and to make things easier they provide and extension to set your default search engine for you.

I was considering subscribing to Kagi but $10/month is almost as expensive as my fiber broadband connection and I don't think I can justify this expense. I would likely subscribe if it was $5/month.

I thought the same at first. Then I thought on an annual budget and price.

Does Kagi worth $120 per year for me ? Yes, yes it does, it's barely nothing compared to the value of having proper search result. I checked ... I make more than 50 searches per day...

$120 yearly is nothing compared to other expenses that I have like my broadband internet around $70 per month for it...

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Post by skilled »

Belphemur wrote: post #20
dezmou wrote: post #6

Great now I will be able to never see quora.com again

I'd argue all Q&A services devolve into madness when they get mainstream. Before Quora we had yahoo answer and before that surely something else. As soon as they get mainstream the quality of question and answer goes down. Those systems only work with well defined constraints either on the subject of the question or the validation of the expertise of the people answering. All of those platform just open the valve wit…

This is largely platform’s fault though. Quora had every opportunity to stop site spammers from posting non-informative answers just to farm clicks for the blog posts they link to for the “full” answer.

Mind boggling that Google hasn’t penalised them since years ago.

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Post by heretogetout »

MauranKilom wrote: post #18
ezekg wrote: post #3

Alternatively, you could stop using Google and use Kagi ( https://kagi.com ), which offers the same feature. :)

Huh, $10 a month is pretty steep. It's great that they offer a free plan, but that comes with all the misaligned incentives again. Any reason they don't just do pay-per-use (1 cent per query)?

I don't think charging per query would work for most folks, for the same reason micropayments to bloggers or what have you won't work: it discourages use. If you know that every time you hit enter on a search query will cost you something, anything, you'll hesitate. You might choose to just use Google and use your data to pay for your search instead.
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