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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search (techcrunch.com)
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[–] -5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I consider the people paying to use Kagi, which simply uses Bing indexers included in its search results because there is no way in hell any company can have the infrastructure/resources/money to index the entire internet for the last 30 years other than Google and Microsoft, in the same boat of people who purchased NFT tokens of an image.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    That's a bit of a stretch?

    People who pay for Kagi likely tried the trial and found the results to be far enough better than google/microslop that they are willing to pay for the ongoing service. Or they want to support a business model that isn't based around the advertising industry, so that someday Kagi can realistically compete with the incumbents. I don't need to search for things often enough to justify the cost, but I know people who use it for work and consider it to be worth the cost.

    Meanwhile people who bought NFTs thought that they could sell a copy of a digital image for lots of money.

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