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Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search (blog.kagi.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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All Kagi Search users can now flag low-quality AI content (“AI slop”) in web, image, and video search results. We will verify these reports using our own signals. If a domain primarily publishes AI-generated content, we will downrank it in Kagi Search and mark it as AI slop. If a page is AI-generated but the domain is mixed (not mostly AI), we will flag the page as AI-generated but will not downrank it.

For media results, images and videos confirmed as AI-generated, they will be labelled as such and automatically downranked on the results page. Users can also choose to filter out AI-generated media entirely.

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[–] 33 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Is Kagi worth it? I mostly use DDG but every search engine I’ve tried is terrible now and rapidly getting worse by the day.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago

    Try the free trial.

    They give you enough searches for free that you should be able to figure out if there is value for you and the type of searches you do.

    I find it a much better experience than Google which was what I was using before.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    I think so. I’ve been using it for over a year, as another poster said Kagi feels like Google did 15 years ago, before it destroyed itself.

    Every time I use a search on another machine, my first reaction is “oh my god what is all of this shit everywhere? ads, spam, AI slop, shopping garbage, etc”, then I quickly realize it’s not my computer and that’s just what Google looks like now.

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago

    Absolutely. I've been using it for a month and it feels like Google, but before they enshittified. DDG was my previous goto search engine, but it's gotten really bad as well. Especially the aggressive keyword replacements drove me almost insane.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 11 months ago

    I enjoy it. They have a 100-search free trial so you can test it out for yourself. Between them down ranking sites full of trackers and allowing you to put your own preferential ratings on sites, I find myself getting the results I'm after so much quicker.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    Is Kagi worth it?

    I've heard differing accounts. Some people definitely swear by it. But if you're just using search as a portal to Wikipedia or Generic News Of the Day, it still points you to the same catalog of high profile sites as everyone else.

    $5-10/mo isn't a wallet buster. But is it really any better than searching Google with udm=14 turned on? YMMV.

    Nobody has satisfactorily explained to me how much Kagi is cribbing from the other search engines and how much is their own internal web crawling and sorting heuristics.

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