It's a cool search engine. I agreee that need improve in UI/UX. If UI/UX is great. I will consider to use it.
Thanks, if you have any specific points of friction, please let us know (an email is perfectly fine)!
Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
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Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
#62Interesting. Being EU-based is a huge plus over Kagi in my opinion. I also like that they don't ask any personal data, even email address. I like services that don't want any personal details. Like with Mullvad, where they just give you a random number and that's your account ID However I wonder where they get their search data from. But it's worth investigating.
It should be clear in the FAQ. All Europe-based. Our current search providers: - Mojeek - EUSP - Marginalia - Linkup - Serper (the only non-EU, being UK and proxying Google) - Uruky Site Search (our own index) - Pixabay (images) I'd be curious to hear about your Mullvad experience (feel free to email me).
Well Mullvad stopped providing port forwarding, which is necessary for good torrent support (especially if you use public torrents and you need ones that aren't seeded a lot).
They also stopped supporting openvpn which I need. Wireguard only now.
It's not enshittification in terms of ads etc but it is reduction of possibilities because they already make enough money on the people using the main features.
But anyway I rely on both things so I moved over.
Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
#63I read in your FAQ that you don't support bitcoin payments yet. Might I suggest you have a look at https://www.lightspark.com/capabilities/embedded-finance ? They make it easy to be compliant with local laws and integrate payment features.
Thanks! We're currently trying to get in touch with proxysto.re for that. Light Spark seems based in the US, so we can't consider them, I'm afraid.
Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good question! We also have Uruky Site Search, our own index, which is quite tiny at the moment, but we hope to grow, eventually. Kagi's own index is Teclis, which is one of their smaller providers as well.
If you are building out your own index, might you consider offering it as an API via pre-paid credits (ala Mojeek, Kagi Teclis?) I'm only paying Mojeek about $10 - $20 per year in API for my personal metasearch, so I guess this is a terrible market to enter ;) But I'd genuinely be interested, especially if the money is going towards building an index.
Uruky does exactly that (it has an API and any searches fund the search providers directly). If you want to _exclusively_ use Uruky Site Search (our index), though, that'd be impossible as it's too small to be used as an exclusive provider. Probably in the future that'll be possible, though.
I'd recommend you look into any of our other search providers if you just want the API search!
Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
#65I read in your FAQ that you don't support bitcoin payments yet. Might I suggest you have a look at https://www.lightspark.com/capabilities/embedded-finance ? They make it easy to be compliant with local laws and integrate payment features.
Thanks! We're currently trying to get in touch with proxysto.re for that. Light Spark seems based in the US, so we can't consider them, I'm afraid.
Why do you need to involve a third party to implement bitcoin payments?
Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
#66I think it could help to maybe allow 10 searches free (without logging in) just for someone to see what the UI is like or show an example of the results page. It adds a bit of friction for someone to have to make an account and pay just to test the product. Kagi lets you test it offline (go incognito and try) " Kagi Search is funded by members, not advertisers: built to find what you need, not sell your attention. Tr…
Thanks for the suggestion! That would mean we'd have to count searches, which we don't want to do. With the 2h free trial via proof-of-work captcha it should allow you for much more than that! I know the FAQ for that is outdated! I'll update it later today with a new date filter.
Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
#67I'd be more than willing to subscribe and support the project BUT, I need to address the elephant in the room: The reason why I'm against Kagi is the fact that they use Yandex(be it only for images according to their own words) and I'm sure as hell refusing to give a single cent to them. So I guess my question is: sources?
> For web search, Uruky currently integrates Mojeek, Marginalia, EUSP (Ecosia/Qwant) (only works with French, German, or English), Linkup, Serper, and Uruky Site Search. > For image search, Uruky currently integrates Pixabay and Serper (image results). https://uruky.com/faq
Thank you!
Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Uruky is a private search engine focused on personalization > - Indexing websites is super important. People doesnt know where to put the content in a website or how to make accessible. Many times i use google due to this fact. Is there a way to build a search engine that doesn't involve either building or accessing a index somehow? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, is this for the website builders or fo…
In the FAQ, they mention they don’t have an index, they just collect the results from other search engines.
Uh oh. Where is that? We do have our own index, Uruky Site Search!
Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
#69I'd be more than willing to subscribe and support the project BUT, I need to address the elephant in the room: The reason why I'm against Kagi is the fact that they use Yandex(be it only for images according to their own words) and I'm sure as hell refusing to give a single cent to them. So I guess my question is: sources?
What's wrong with Yandex? I think every possible criticism of Yandex I can think of could just as easily be leveled at Google or Bing.
but surely you realize that people going to kagi also don’t like google or bing.
Re: Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
#70Regarding UI/UX. One thing that immediately catches my as an Design Engineer (being over 7 years Product Designer before that) is that the site looks bland. Nothing that sticks. Also one UX caveat: you are using your accent-color for primary buttons like the sign-up as well as a display variant for text for the "PRIVATE SEARCH YOU CONTROL". The logo is not a strong one, lacks personality, the font choice is also a little "weird".
Just my two cents. But I am glad, that someone is creating an alternative in the EU. Hit me up, if you want to get more design opinions.