• @V0ldek
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    469 months ago

    I literally learnt about Kagi like a week ago from a Cory Doctorow’s post. I was like oh, cool, someone there to fight google.

    • David GerardOPMA
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      309 months ago

      I KNOW RIGHT

      they just got THE BEST word of mouth

      and then Vlad just …

      • @No1@aussie.zone
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        169 months ago

        So close!

        We were right there!

        And then Vlad had to do his impaling thing…

    • @shadow@lemmy.sdf.org
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      159 months ago

      Ah man, same. Thought I’d give it a go after reading about if from Cory…

      Honestly, for what I search for, DDG is sufficient, and it’s not gonna hassle me about subscriptions.

      What I’d really like to find is something like a pihole for search, where you have your blocklist, cache of things you’ve searched already (your own mini search engine?), and then a fallback engine (DDG, bing, Google, whatever) for things it doesn’t already know.

      I dunno. Search and AI botshit is everywhere, and it’s gonna keep getting worse. Self-hosting tools seems to be the only way to take control back.

      • @ahopefullycuterrobot
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        9 months ago

        I was trying and failing to do something like that. Basically, using ArchiveBox to download bookmarks, and then use recoll to index the webpages + PDFs + my own writing. Assumption was that I probably already bookmarked or had copies of what I wanted and just needed a quick way to find them. Was eventually going to import my browsing history as well. It ended up being more trouble than it was worth. (Too many bookmarks, not enough disk space, didn’t know what the best setting for ArchiveBox were, Archivebox has its own search and I wasn’t sure how that compared to recoll, unsure most efficient way to delete useless downloaded pages or curate them, etc.)

        I do use uBlacklist and the Huge AI Blocklist subscription to try to clean up my search results. Not sure how effective they are over all though.

      • Chamomile 🐑
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        89 months ago

        @shadow @V0ldek > What I’d really like to find is something like a pihole for search, where you have your blocklist, cache of things you’ve searched already (your own mini search engine?), and then a fallback engine (DDG, bing, Google, whatever) for things it doesn’t already know.

        I think SearXNG sort of fulfills this, from what I’ve heard? It’s more or less a self-hosted search engine that can combine indexes from various other engines, and I presume that means you can set your own rules and filters and such. There are public instances as well.