nixCraft 🐧Aug 28, 2025
What is the biggest bait and switch tactic you have seen in the tech industry?
Show threadrozodru
@nixCraft recent discussion on here reminded me that Kagi exists. a paid service search engine that says if you pay us we won't sell your data you can have 300 searches a month AND we won't give you ads or push stuff to you.

Meanwhile what you get for your $10 a month is slow ass performance, crappy results, and to top it all off a metric shit ton of AI slop.
Aug 28, 2025 at 6:01pmWeb
Show threadDylanAug 28, 2025
@rozodru @nixCraft I’ve had generally good (well, better than Google or DDG) results from Kagi. What’s your comparison that it’s crappy by? Not rhetorical—wondering if you’re seeing better results from Marginalia or something I’ve not heard of.
Show threadrozodruAug 28, 2025
@arubis @nixCraft I personally have my own Searxng instance set up on my server and I get much better results with that.

Kagi I just found brutally slow and the results were on par with say Startpage or Qwant - OK but not great. Not something I'd be happy paying money for that's for sure.
Show threadDylanAug 28, 2025

@rozodru @nixCraft Neat; I’ll have a look! Kinda reminds me of Copernic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernic) from the pre-Google days.

FWIW I typically get results back from Kagi in about 1s.

Copernic - Wikipedia