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Seeing how successful Kagi is when run by someone who actively sets their own money on fire for no reason almost makes me want to try and start a search engine company. I mean I couldn't do it any worse right? And there is a market for it.
Kagi basically admits they're just piggybacking off of Google, Bing, et al, so getting into the space shouldn't be a serious PITA.
This seems like a totally even keeled response though?
If a CEO emails some random unsatisfied user out of the blue with strong "no one must ever be unhappy" energy and they reply with:
I may not have spelled this out explicitly in my previous reply but I will do so here: I am not interested in getting more replies from you on this subject
Then the only even keeled response is silence.
You’re wrong. And I’m not interested in any more replies from you on this subject.
Look at me. I am the CEO now.
REEEEEEEEEE don't respond!!!!
Please go be a gamer discord entrant elsewhere
Just making a point.
I'm not interested in any further replies from you on this matter.
weird, we’re not interested in any further replies from you at all. fuck along now
He missed the opportunity of just replying unsubscribe or signing the CEO up for cat facts.
Can I sincerely ask what we're supposed to use instead?
Kagi has given me the best search experience ive had in at least a decade, I'm not going back to the enshittification engine, and everything else is just bing in fancy wrapping paper. Is there something else like Kagi? Is there something like DDG or Searx that arent just slightly better bing?
Also looking for answers. I've been a Kagi convert for 5 months now and it has absolutely saved me time and effort.
I was looking at Perplexity but it isn't exactly the same.
Feel entirely free to use Kagi, just remember that it's run by an idiot and could blow up at any moment.
Apologies, my question wasn't rhetorical, I was genuinely looking for suggestions. I don't want to use kagi if this is who is running it... BUT all the alternatives that I'm personally aware of are not options for replacement.
basically the whole area is gallopping enshittification. Until this blowup, I had seriously been considering Kagi too.
Guess it's time to spin up a local search indexer...
I was about to jump off DuckDuckGo as its also going down, was going to go for kagi, in very much reconsidering that now... But then what?
Running your own personal search engine might be a bit much to chew off for most people, but is there a good open source federated search engine out there that I can contribute a server to, perhaps?
a good open source federated search engine out there that I can contribute a server to
I’d love to contribute to something like this. it might even make for a good replacement for lemmy’s awful built-in search
clearly, finding things is not a good idea
I've never had anothee CEO mansplain his company to me
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Slayed me.
I haven't paid Kagi much attention up to this point, so I'm coming in cold to this. But gawd Vlad (makes himself) sound like a huge dork.
I love it. It screams xkcd-386 energy and he keeps digging