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[–] 77 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Internet literacy is going to be so hard to teach now.

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  • [–] 56 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    A friend of mine was working as an adjunct professor in the CS department. He said that there are incoming freshmen majoring in computer science that don't even understand how to use a file system or find a file that they've saved. It's crazy that we had about a generation and a half of tech literate people and everyone since is basically on the same level as boomers.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago

    It can fuck all the way off.

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  • [–] 47 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    My Kagi subscription looks better by the day

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    How's the quality of the result? I've considered subscribing...

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

    The quality of the results are pretty much on par with Google because they use the Google Index (as well as others).

    However, the secret sauce is the tools that Kagi gives you to improve the results even further. For example, you can boost and downrank whatever websites you want, they label AI-slop websites or websites with tons of ads, and you can narrow your searches with lenses.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    The main index is Google but they have a ton of different sources, also they rejigger some of the results based on the number of trackers on the site, under the hypothesis that quality and ad tracking are inversely proportional.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    i heavily use kagi and their result is definitely much better than google for uncommon queries, specially if technical.

    google results is pretty much from sites that i have filtered out in kagi.

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

    Moving to Qwant looks better every day.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    i have given up on google as search engine. I use ecosia these days. Tried bing also previously but that is too much AI bs so ditched that as well.

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