Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn’t see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?

  • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    287·
    6 months ago

    I’ve begun to pay for Kagi.com

    I wouldn’t say that it “blows my mind” or anything, but simply that it seems to work as expected (which is more than what I can say for Google). There’s also a “Fediverse” button on Kagi.com, so it can search lemmy.world (and more??).

    • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev
      11·
      6 months ago

      I’m just annoyed by the regions issues, you’ll get pretty biased results depending in what region you select.
      If you try to search for something specific to a region with other selected you’ll find sometime empty results, which shows you won’t get relevant results about a search if you don’t properly select the region.

      Probably this is more obvious with non technical searches, for example my default region is canada-en and if I try “instituto nacional electoral” I only get a wiki page, an international site and some other random sites with no news, only when I change the region I get the official page ine.mx and news. For me this means kagi hides results from other regions instead of just boosting the selected region’s ones.

      • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
        8·
        6 months ago

        Yeah that drives me nuts too. Shopping results for fuckin Home Depot? I’m in Europe you stupid search engine

      • 30p87@feddit.de
        2·
        6 months ago

        And searching for a german word always brings up dictionaries from german to english, instead of Wikipedia etc.

          • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
            12·
            6 months ago

            This is one person rambling about stuff she’s hypothesising

            “They didn’t pay sales tax for the first couple of years”

            Do you even know how small businesses get off the ground in Europe? Possibly by being exempt from taxes until their profits are high enough?

            Says their financial information is impossible to find, then starts telling us exactly what that information is

            This is the same as people watching a YouTube channel and just assuming it’s gospel because they watch that channel a lot smh

              • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
                2·
                6 months ago

                if you want to read some more critical commentary

                What I read was a measured and reasoned reply from one of the founders to a small handful of keyboard warriors 😂

          • tyler@programming.dev
            3·
            6 months ago

            I read that when it was originally posted and it just comes across as a one-sided account from someone pissed about something, with no actual thought about the situation put into it.