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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by HideousKojima »

snowram wrote: post #783
HideousKojima wrote: post #560

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Trying to find any guides for anything in Baldur's Gate 3 returns page upon page of AI generated garbage, a sure sign of things to come.

Funny that you mention this game. bg3.wiki, the community wiki had a lot of troubles with SEO. It got ignored or pushed down in the search results for a very long time, while the awful Fextralife wiki that includes a Twitch view botting iframe on every pages was always first.

Sadly even the Fextralife wiki (garbage that it is) is better than most of the other results and that's still drowned out by the AI spam.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by coldpie »

BoppreH wrote: post #191
rjh29 wrote: post #172

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Yeah you sound like someone who should not be using Windows in any way shape or form. The telemetry and lack of control? Try Linux out.

I'm wary of telemetry, but willing to accept it. It's the lack of respect that gets to me. "Yes/Maybe Later"? Showing me a fake Windows update screen once a month to try to get me to use an online account and switch to Edge? Starting a Bing search when the start menu doesn't recognize an application's name? Pre-installing games with advertisement and microtransactions? It's a commercial operating system, for Christ's…

Heh. Man, you are going to love Linux. Stop waiting and drop that Windows shit like a hot potato.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by rchaud »

abricot wrote: post #741
lostlogin wrote: post #684

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I’d argue that Google is worse than Pinterest. We got here due to Google.

To be fair, google DID provide quality at scale in the past. I'm not sure the same can be said about Pinterest.

Due to linkrot, a lot of images that stood on independent websites, are now only available on Pinterest, which scraped and cached them before the original site went dark. Clicking through to the original links these days often leads to 404s.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by rchaud »

permo-w wrote: post #588
CynicusRex wrote: post #534

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It is indeed, hence “ https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=%s -site:quora.com -site:pinterest.com” as my default search syntax.

I have a strong memory that Quora used to be quite good, and then was suddenly horrendous. Is this just me?

Quora was excellent for SEO, so brands and companies started using Quora answers to pump their own products and services. It's completely useless now.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by j7ake »

TisButMe wrote: post #636
j7ake wrote: post #627

Kagi looks great. But does it search academic papers like google scholar?

We do - we have lenses which basically search subsets of the web (and you can make your own). Academic is a default lens :)

Thanks. I created a lens that searches PubMed for scientific papers. It’s not bad, but not sure if it’s better than just searching on pubmed or scholar.google.com

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by slikrick »

rany_ wrote: post #549
brandon272 wrote: post #542

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Kagi does not log and associate searches with an account.

That still requires a leap of faith to a relatively small company. Even if true, they could always secretly activate logging without your knowledge.

or get bought out by an advertising agency

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by EricMausler »

ask_b123 wrote: post #483
RajT88 wrote: post #451

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Google's gotta make money off Pinterest somehow, based on the most blocked domains on Kagi: https://kagi.com/stats Pinterest is a scourge on the modern web, worse than any other.

Might these stats be biased by the demographics that use Kagi? I don't use Pinterest, and never really encounter it on a daily basis, but some of my friends really like the site. Tbf, they might use stackoverflow more, but seeing Hacker News on the top 5 doesn't seem to reflect the average web user's usage...

I used pinterest and still hate(d) when it popped up on search.

Without too much conjecture I think the problem is search-related web crawlers and users have very different experiences with pinterest. To the web crawler, the information is there and easily accesible. To a user, it might be behind a login, or part of an image description, or a sidenote, or whatever. The page doesn't exactly load with what you are looking for front and center

Additionally, I don't use it through a browser, I use it in an app, so im not logged in on my browser.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by rchaud »

jacurtis wrote: post #433
wyclif wrote: post #420

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They have. It's a lot better now than when they started out. They have incrementally been improving it. The reason why it gets pushed down is because a lot of people have a natural distate for the ads and the fact that it's a content farm. But if you have good ad blocking I don't see the harm in using it as long as you understand what it is.

I think its the same as it has always been. They went from being bad compared to everything else to now feeling good compared to everything else. Basically they stayed static and the rest of the internet worsened around them and our perspectives are now skewed. What used to feel like a spammy content farm is actually not that bad now that we have seen real spammy content farms, like the SO clones that just take SO po…

It's not a content farm. That would be sites like dev.to that put out tons of unstructured blog posts from all and sundry.

W3schools is refreshing specifically because its content is all tutorial-based, they aren't any paywalls or dickbars insisting you subscribe by email.

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