Kagi is a commercial search engine with some pretty awesome features. This one helps Lemmy users.
It’s wild that Google got so bad that people are actually paying to get decent search.
We were always paying, the price just wasn’t obvious
True. Still.
Meanwhile Kagi partnering with Brave… I think I’ll stick with SearXNG (which also can do this, and is free).
They explain a bit more about what that means here: https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave/75
TL;DR They use multiple sources for search results besides their own indexer, the most obvious one is Google. To lessen dependence on one single search provider they have been adding other sources, one of them is now Brave. That is the whole thing.
On Dec 26, Kagi started including search results from Brave search index, after we previously added Mojeek and Yandex earlier in the year. Brave has a public search api and we currently implemented it for about 10% of queries as a first test (same as any other API we use, there is no mutual development or anything of the sorts). This was announced in our Dec 28 public changelog. Approximately a week later on Jan 5 after several posts on social media about ‘Brave partnership’ the situation escalated.]
So, if you do not like to use Google in the first place, I don’t really understand why lessening the dependence on google would be a bad thing?
The issue people have with that is not adding a new indexer besides Google, but the values the people behind Brave represent. Customers apparently don’t like financially supporting a homophobic asshole.
Don’t try to bring logic here. The hivemind can’t be beaten.
so you mean we can configure searxng to work like fediverse lens? if yes, how to?
It’s free just because someone else pays for you (I’m one of these "someone"s, I own one of the instances at searx. space). Unless you host you own instance at your own expenses.
The anti-Brave idiocy/hysteria is getting out of hand on the Fedi. And everybody knows it’s mostly virtue signaling anyway.
This is my first time hearing of SearXNG. Did some poking. They don’t have their own engine tech all all, eh? Just riding on top of other results?
Yes, it is a metasearch engine. It’s basically like proxy+aggregator or multiple engines.
Ah, pity. It probably doesn’t scale well then.
