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Kagi is simply reselling google search results.
They do more than that: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
They're just reselling google searches. With maybe 1% salted in from elsewhere for deniability.
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As a user of Kagi and search.marginalia.nu I can tell you: Quite a bit. So much that now that I have what "everyone" asked Google for for years - that is blacklists - I hardly use them. Why? Because with Kagi I get much better results out of the box. I am fairly sure Googlers will tell me there are multiple safeguards to prevent the inclusion of Google ads from affecting ranking, to which I just have to say that the…
Kagi is the same garbage as google in my niche. Even worse, maybe. It looks like it's weighing backlinks and SEO garbage even higher. Well done. I don't know how people keep talking about it. The results, as you say, speak for themselves.
I am happy for alternatives, otherwise I guess Kagi wouldn't improve so fast in areas I care about.
If there are really 14,000 attributes, most of them will have a weight near 0, thus are irrelevant. If they would be all heavy weighted, the ranking would be rendered irrelevant due to the sheer amount of attributes.
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They do more than that: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
Then why does kagi have the same artificially-massive github boost that google does and no other engine (bing, duckduckgo) does? They're just reselling google searches. With maybe 1% salted in from elsewhere for deniability.
Or at least I thought so?
But with Kagi you can always lower github results if you want to. Or boost other sites that you prefer.
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As a user of Kagi and search.marginalia.nu I can tell you: Quite a bit. So much that now that I have what "everyone" asked Google for for years - that is blacklists - I hardly use them. Why? Because with Kagi I get much better results out of the box. I am fairly sure Googlers will tell me there are multiple safeguards to prevent the inclusion of Google ads from affecting ranking, to which I just have to say that the…
I actually use pinning, blocking and raising/lowering the value of individual sites every day. I wish this is the direction search engines went in the first place and it's the direction I hope Kagi continues. I want a personalized search engine that's personalized by me, not by a company trying to profile me and make money off of my clicks.
> Successful clicks matter. I wonder about this. If I click a link and read it and I find that it's garbage (e.g. got ranked based on SEO rather than useful content) does it count as a successful click? Worse yet, some of these sites have blatant errors that are only discovered after examination. This is relative to technical subject matter. Other searches, such as shopping may not suffer this kind of problem (or I h…
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Kagi is the same garbage as google in my niche. Even worse, maybe. It looks like it's weighing backlinks and SEO garbage even higher. Well done. I don't know how people keep talking about it. The results, as you say, speak for themselves.
Well, don't use it then. I am happy for alternatives, otherwise I guess Kagi wouldn't improve so fast in areas I care about.
I think many people whose lives don't revolve around these things (as in your finances/mortgage are not dependent on google search) get weird magical views about search engines where it's sorta like a modern delphic oracle where the magic works as long as you believe in it. Of course I have the opposite problem where Google is angry chthonic god to be supplicated/scorned.
Oh well, I do know I will not be worshipping a new god that cannot even destroy the abominations sitting at the top of the rankings.
FYI, it's much easier to read the linked GitHub code via the published docs at https://hexdocs.pm/google_api_content_warehouse/0.4.0/api-re...
In particular, https://hexdocs.pm/google_api_content_warehouse/0.4.0/Google... Notably, for people on HN, it looks like there is indeed an internal initiative to promote small personal blogs :-) > smallPersonalSite (type: number(), default: nil) - Score of small personal site promotion go/promoting-personal-blogs-v1
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You mean a world where people still knew how to use a library catalog, still relied on more than one source of information and curious crazy tid bits are still out there? The internet is boring. And the trash is still there. Its just become reputable instead.
There's a lot to unpack here... Can you expand on how a card catalog improved the world? As a kid I used the card catalog a lot, both the physical version and the later electronic versions. Full text search definitely leads to pulling in information from a wider selection of sources. I remember a lot of stratification of news sources pre-Google (which news channel you watched, which papers/magazines you read). Did Go…
i was lamenting the library recently and remembered how books were organized on shelves using the dewey decimal system
this meant that if you knew of one book that has something you're looking for, you can find all the _other_ books about the same topic right next to the first book, even if you knew nothing about the contents of the related books