I’m not sure what exactly you’re typing into the search field, but I don’t anything like this. The top 3 sites I get for a search of “minerals” are wikipedia, australian museum, and britannica. Typing in “crystals” gets me a healthline article debunking crystal healing, but the following results are some woman’s personal store and amazon. Lastly, being direct about wanting scientific articles gets me said articles…
Side note: Why are there so many people pushing for kagi in this thread and skipping over the fact that duckduckgo exists? It’s kinda bizarre to see.
I’ve commented about potential Kagi astroturfing here before.
Seems likely to me.
Their trial - too short for me - felt like a private Google w/improvements.
Now, as a filthy freeloader, my default is DuckDuckGo. I am dissatisfied with the results and !bang out to Google (!g) about half the time. I pray DDG makes use of this data to improve their engine.
tl;dr astroturfing vs. bad results vs. enabling the king of adware
Nah, it was stract, which if I understand correctly is open source and has it’s own index. Though the results haven’t been amazing in my experience. Still, it’s exciting it exists though :)
I’m not sure what exactly you’re typing into the search field, but I don’t anything like this. The top 3 sites I get for a search of “minerals” are wikipedia, australian museum, and britannica. Typing in “crystals” gets me a healthline article debunking crystal healing, but the following results are some woman’s personal store and amazon. Lastly, being direct about wanting scientific articles gets me said articles…
Side note: Why are there so many people pushing for kagi in this thread and skipping over the fact that duckduckgo exists? It’s kinda bizarre to see.
It’s a tide ad
Hell, typing in “scientific data about minerals” gets me a bunch of university geology department websites.
I’ve commented about potential Kagi astroturfing here before.
Seems likely to me.
Their trial - too short for me - felt like a private Google w/improvements.
Now, as a filthy freeloader, my default is DuckDuckGo. I am dissatisfied with the results and !bang out to Google (!g) about half the time. I pray DDG makes use of this data to improve their engine.
tl;dr astroturfing vs. bad results vs. enabling the king of adware
Gosh I need to set up SearXNG! Also “private Google” vibes. Instances here
Half the time?
I switch to another search engine about 1 in 100
I pretty much dislike that DDG is not opensource while preaching about privacy and stuff. But tbh no idea what Kagi is.
Kagi is a paid open source and private search engine. Folks seem to really like the results they get from it 🤷🏻
Kagi is not open source as far as I can tell. They have a few open source small projects but the bulk of it is closed source.
Oh, thanks for the correction! I think I confused it with another search engine and mixed the two together in my head
Maybe searxng?
Nah, it was stract, which if I understand correctly is open source and has it’s own index. Though the results haven’t been amazing in my experience. Still, it’s exciting it exists though :)