• Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    I quite liked Kahi when I tried it, but it lacked several Google features that truly make is easier to use. For example on google I can search for a restaurant, and even if it has a common name, it will find the one that is the most relevant to me, and it will also show me a phone number, reviews and pictures etc. I also found that mixed language results are kinda bad, like when searching for something in a language, and then something else in another language, it really prefers having a single language set in the settings. For that, I felt it was a bit expensive for also taking a feature cut. So I went back to google. Luckily in Canada we don’t have the AI search summary bullshit yet so there’s that.

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      12 days ago

      For example on google I can search for a restaurant, and even if it has a common name, it will find the one that is the most relevant to me,

      This is what tracking helps with. Google knows roughly where you live (or exactly where you live if you have your home saved in Google Maps) and uses this data as part of Google search.

      One of the main benefits of other search engines is that they don’t track you, but as a result, the results aren’t customized for you.