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The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now (www.stephendiehl.com)
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[–] 17 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I think we need a special internet where making money is outlawed. If your website turns a profit in any way it's removed.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Kagi are trying to do something similar with their smallweb project, where they're building a list of personal sites/blogs. These types of sites usually don't rank highly in search engines, but Kagi does rank them above other results since they're almost always better than the SEO slop that ranks highly in other search engines.

    They have a site to randomly browse them too, kinda like StumbleUpon if you ever used that. https://kagi.com/smallweb/

    The list is in this repo: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The irony of Kagi, a for profit AI company, doing this

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Their mission has always been about making the web better for humans, though. Their AI stuff is all opt-in and they have a decent philosophy about it: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/ai-philosophy.html

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Their leadership, business model and finances are sketchy, and the AI stuff being opt-in is a byproduct of their marketing. They are an AI company, and their product is an AI. Kagi Search was just a stepping stone to reach their goal.

    This is a nice read on Kagi: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting. I'll take a closer look and read the article you linked to. I haven't used Kagi much, but I did try the trial and their search results are definitely better than Google.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I used Kagi a bit before reading that article, and it was definitely better than Google (tho, at this point, it's a low bar).

    I have found Qwant to be equally good. But beware, it also has AI stuff. I really wish there was a real no-nonsense search engine without any AI in it, that just worked.

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