Anyone using their own searx-ng, the metasearch engine? Have you tried Kagi? How is it comparatively when it comes to quality of results given that with searx I can customize the engines and such.
Kagi and Wolfram
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#222I’m, Doggo clearly has a boner….
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kagi has a built in 'Forums' search that limits results to Reddit, HN, and other high-quality user discussions. It's probably my favorite feature.
Google had that and I used it constantly. Then they removed it of course. I can't remember if it included small blogs as well.
Yes you're absolutely right, I used it too, it's a shame they got rid of it but Google will be Google
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#224Why am I starting to see a lot of promotional statements within HN? Are there any bot or some army of manual labor around?
Kagi founder here. Also a long time HN user and as such I too share your concern that we get too much exposure here. I do not know what to say but that I am eternally grateful to HN, as it is what enabled Kagi's existance. We have no marketing budget and majority of our users come from HN, so I can confirm that the comments you see here are authentic.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
> eliminates tons of valuable content They aren’t eliminating it, just downranking it. Given Kagi’s search quality, ad and tracking density seems to negatively correlate with site quality.
And the type of tracking they’re referring to is more like selling-your-data-to-third-parties tracking, not Google or New Relic or something. Maybe sales funnel tracking and interstitial popovers. Your average Adblock doesn’t distinguish between tracking methods and goals but trying to block all pages that load Google Analytics would probably lead to an incredibly small pool of websites, which would worsen the result…
Anti-tracking has gone mainstream enough among America’s elite that I’ve seen executives who are otherwise not tech savvy find themselves unable to load a page (or follow through a tracked link in an email), figure it’s because it’s infested and—on that basis—move on from that vendor.
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#226Happy Kagi user here.
Random aside: this blog is the first time I've seen a monospace font used for prose that doesn't look absolutely terrible; in fact, it's very readable for me. Inspecting with Firefox, I see the font is Menlo--and looking it up, it even seems like it's a web-safe font. Pretty interesting.
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#227Happy Kagi user here. Random aside: this blog is the first time I've seen a monospace font used for prose that doesn't look absolutely terrible; in fact, it's very readable for me. Inspecting with Firefox, I see the font is Menlo--and looking it up, it even seems like it's a web-safe font. Pretty interesting.
AFAIK that's the default monospace font for apple devices as well.
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#228What a mistake by
Vladimir Prelovac to get
Stephen numbram involved.
I was considering continuing
My subscription to KAgi but
Finding out that kagi becomes
A wolfram toy - no thank u.
I pass.
Wolfram alpha works only half the time
Correctly for anything practically useful.
And half of the time it works, it’s pain
To make it work.
Uggghhh wolfman.
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#229> welcome Stephen Wolfram to Kagi’s board of advisors This is interesting. I guess we will soon read a longwinded post about it from the first person perspective.
Hahahahahahaha sooooo trrruuuueeeeeeee
Let’s upload also a 2 GB paper with lots
Of graphics and Mma code on ArXiv because
everyone on ArXiv is looking forward to it
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#230I’m really curious if they still maintain their privacy promises with wolfram results
Wolfram isn't really in the ad business, as far as I know. They probably retain queries blindly for metric tracking, but my (informed) guess would be that it's very separate from and PII.
Not to mention that presumably all of the requests will just come from Kagi itself, with no indication of which user asked for the information.