David GerardJul 17, 2024

Remember when Google tried to index the whole web?

Yeah, it doesn't do that any more. It seems to default to *not* indexing things.

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/google-now-defaults-to-not-indexing-your-content/

Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content

Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google. You search for a unique sentence from your…

Vincent Schmalbach
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@davidgerard yes but !

Following a recommendation of @wimpy on the @linuxmatters podcast on June 11th, I immediately switched to Kagi and never looked back.

https://kagi.com/

It's a paid service and thus has a business model that actually wants to make search results better and it shows.

Highly recommended.

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Jul 17, 2024 at 7:29pmWeb
Show threadDavid GerardJul 17, 2024
@coucouf @wimpy @linuxmatters kagi's backend is the Google API though
Show threadMike Rochefort Jul 18, 2024

@davidgerard @coucouf @wimpy @linuxmatters Kagi uses several indexes on the backend including their own. I've been using Kagi as my primary search engine coming up on a year and I have no intention of unsubscribing.

It's not perfect, general mainstream stuff can be suboptimal (news, sports, etc). The vast majority of my searches, though, return better results than if I were to go through Google. Plus it has interesting tools to tune the query.