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I see lots of promises, but very little proof. While, again, running a business model that massively increases the inherent risk compared to the competition.
One of the best things about paid business model for search is that it aligns incentives and decreases the risk of data mining as the business makes money through subscriptions, without any need for ads/selling data.
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Have you checked out Kagi? It’s exactly what you’re looking for and more. They have a blog post on the front page rn about their integration with Wolfram Alpha.
The more I read about kagi on hn the more it feels like organized shill campaign
Hi!
I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK about "popular" or "trending" matches. I want to see results that EXACTLY match what I am looking for.
Why is this such an impossible ask for search engines? 15 years ago it was the norm, not the exception. If SEO is the problem, then BLOCK THE SEO TRASH AT THE SOURCE.
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You are an angel!
You don't need to use a separate extension to filter out search results. You can use this tool to generate filters for uBlock Origin: https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results
As long as Google doesn't have keyword search it's useless to me. Bring back quotes around a series of words, with an exact match. Bring back +WORD and -WORD to include exact matches and exclude exact matches that I am _not_ interested in seeing. I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK about "popular" or "trending" matches. I want to see results that EXACTLY match what I am looking for. Why is this such an impossible ask for search eng…
-word is still a thing that works a bit.
The acid test: can I find a brownie recipie without any fucking around? ...nope, I still can't.
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There is so much Kagi references on HN that I’m slowly beginning to feel sus about it. I’m not saying this is happening (I’m not saying anyone is a shill). It’s just making me feel a little “hmm” about it.
I talk about it here, but I first stumbled across it on Mastodon. I think it’s more that the type of users Mastodon and HN attracts are the same type of people to pay for a search engine and be excited about a search engine. I have long hated that “free with ads” is the first and only business model anyone thinks can work on the internet, so I want to support companies that are willing to push back against that. Ads…
There's only "free, with ads" and "paid, with ads eventually".
https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P000079nP9wSAE/ho...
My "bar" for how Google does here is how it treats recipe pages. I absolutely loath what SEO has done for recipe pages, because now essentially every recipe page looks exactly the same: 1. Tons and tons of content about the history of the recipe, how humans first domesticated wheat, when the ancient Egyptians first discovered yeast as a leavening agent, etc. etc. 2. Then, after thousands and thousands of words, there…
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I talk about it here, but I first stumbled across it on Mastodon. I think it’s more that the type of users Mastodon and HN attracts are the same type of people to pay for a search engine and be excited about a search engine. I have long hated that “free with ads” is the first and only business model anyone thinks can work on the internet, so I want to support companies that are willing to push back against that. Ads…
There's no lasting "paid, without ads" model. There's only "free, with ads" and "paid, with ads eventually". https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P000079nP9wSAE/ho...