> “I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.” - Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness
he/him / No tankies please
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nothing to see here :)
nothing to see here :)
nothing to see here :)
It's not fair to call Kagi just meta search engine. As you mentioned they do have their own index, it's just that they are complementary. They even show you how much of the results are unique results from their index. They're very open about it.
there is a better open source meta search engines which actually respect your privacy and need your donations more than Kagi shareholders.
Privacy I can definitely agree on but the actual search result is not better. I think it's safe to say that if you're paying for Kagi, you know what Searxng is and can spin up one if you want. I've done it myself and it was clearly not better.
And if you think about it, if you self host Searxng, that means all the search query + your IP goes to search providers which kinda kills the point, unless you use VPN or Tor, both of which have their drawbacks.
If you use hosted instance, you have to trust them. Being an opensource project doesn't mean a lot when you can't go through the source code that is actually running.
At some point you have to trust someone. I happened to trust Kagi to some extent.