For browser option, should I chose Kagi or Swisscows?
SearxNG instances are not working as well these days and I want something more reliable. I will just pay a subscription. Swiss cows is pushing subscriptions and I'm good with paying. Never tried Kagi.
root
in reply to ScoffingLizard • • •Dr. Wesker
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in reply to Dr. Wesker • • •Deckname
in reply to Nate Cox • • •Goodlucksil
in reply to Deckname • • •Deckname
in reply to Goodlucksil • • •Is it through direct financial transfers or do they use it as another search engine?
Do you happen to know in what way yandex is affiliated with the regime?
Goodlucksil
in reply to Deckname • • •Yandex affiliated with the regime
Kagi is impartial about using Yandex
Western-owned Russian firm helps sites pushing false news profit from ads
Jasper Jackson (The Guardian)Ulrich
in reply to Goodlucksil • • •Except "the best possible information" is filtered. That's the whole point of a search engine is to 1.Find and 2.Filter. If your search engine is turning up Russian propaganda, that is NOT "the best possible information".
ganymede
in reply to Ulrich • • •any nation's major search engine is going to be turning up propaganda.
imo it's better to include it & state where it came from so people can discern.
personally i don't believe the entire population of any country are all bad people and increasingly siloing global citizens from eachother is only going to increase the kinds of toxic nationalism which dangerous regimes use as fuel
Ulrich
in reply to ganymede • • •ganymede
in reply to Ulrich • • •which is why i'd say clearly identify the source so people can discern.
afaict if you want to fairly criticise kagi its for not moving fast enough on adding clear source referencing & adding methods for users to filter out source types.
is there something i'm missing? are there other reasons to suspect bad faith on kagi's part?
Deckname
in reply to Goodlucksil • • •Nate Cox
in reply to Deckname • • •Well, there was the inclusion of the Brave and Yandex indexes which ruffled some feathers for sure, but I personally lost faith in Vlad as decent human when they outright refused to add a widget linking to suicide prevention resources to searches regarding suicide because they would introduce “moral bias”.
kagifeedback.org/d/865-suicide…
Suicide results should probably have a "don't do that" widget like google - Kagi Feedback
kagifeedback.orgdragbone
in reply to Dr. Wesker • • •root
in reply to ScoffingLizard • • •monovergent
in reply to root • • •OP probably isn't self-hosting it. I haven't got around to self-hosting it either and:
- a majority of instances no longer include Google
- many instances return absolutely bogus results
- the ones that return reasonable results have a 50% chance of getting 'Suspended: timeout'
The rate-limiting has hit once-reliable instances really hard in the past few months.
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in reply to root • • •PrivacyDingus
in reply to ScoffingLizard • • •N.E.P.T.R
in reply to ScoffingLizard • • •DuckDuckGo
duckduckgo.comCatsGoMOW
in reply to N.E.P.T.R • • •Kagi Privacy Pass | Kagi's Docs
help.kagi.comunfinished | 🇵🇸
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in reply to ScoffingLizard • • •You should rename thread from browser to search Engine options.
Aside from that can i ask why not something more „popular“ like startpage or DuckDuckGo?
And to answer your question: im an avid duckduckgo User and i used the kagi trial and it was actually a good experience. Still gonna Stick to ddg but it seems capbable
v3r4
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in reply to ScoffingLizard • • •JASx
in reply to ScoffingLizard • • •• Swisscows: It also prioritizes privacy and security, with the advantage of being based in Switzerland, which has strict data protection laws. It is a reliable alternative, especially if you want to avoid sharing personal information.
Tip: If SearxNG is not meeting your expectations, it is worth trying Kagi to see if it better suits your needs. Swisscows is also a great option for those seeking privacy.
swelter_spark
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