lori (@lori@hackers.town)
hackers.town
Attached: 4 images As many of you know, I posted recently about my experiences and outlook on Kagi, the paid search engine. It's gotten some positive press recently, ironically right after I made my blog post about why I no longer liked or trusted it. This blog post was called "Why I Lost Faith In Kagi" and was a pretty simple quick collection of my thoughts that I primarily wrote so it'd be easier to find again later to link to people when discussing Kagi versus making it a fedi thread I couldn't search for easily later. Across the four social media platforms I linked this blog post on, I'd say it got a total of about 40 likes and few reblogs. https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html I say this because this morning I woke up to an email from Kagi's CEO, Vlad, who had seen the post and was upset about it. I have an email address listed on my blog (which is why I didn't bother removing it from these logs), which is what he sent his emails to. I am posting this entire email chain in this thread and will briefly post my thoughts about it, but I feel like it's something that needs to be seen. Please take note of the subject of the email as well (EDIT: It got cropped out sorry, the subject is "Fatih [sic] can not be lost"). Also, since the alt text would get extremely long with some of the transcripts, I've provided a text dump of the emails here for screen reader users and will offer a more abridged description in the alt text: https://d-shoot.net/files/kagiemails.txt
  • @phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    19•3 months ago

    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?

    Edit: and before anyone ironically says “Google that yourself”, I already searched and found a lot of blog posts, GitHub projects, but nothing concrete, no “that’s the one!” Project that is and open source and federated…

    • David GerardOPMAEnglish
      12•3 months ago

      clearly, finding things is not a good idea

    • @selfAEnglish
      10•3 months ago

      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

      • @froztbyteEnglish
        6•3 months ago

        looks interesting. got any experience with it / any references you can share? don’t think I’ve run across it before

        • @selfAEnglish
          7•3 months ago

          you’re right

          the other poster was most likely trying to stir up shit given we’re on a federated network (see also their other post), but I have been obsessed with the idea of a federated search engine this weekend

          it’s definitely a worthwhile idea, but anything that does federated indexing will have to deal with moderation and abuse prevention first. those are hard problems in ordinary federated networks, but search engines specifically are targets of hostile SEO and spam in ways that few other systems are. those aren’t insurmountable problems though — just ones that need to be solved before federation is practical.

          • @phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
            3•3 months ago

            I dunno. Google is currently overwhelmed by SEO optimized crap (at least I guess so, I stopped using it years ago because of that) and I think a federated system where members have different prioritizations would make SEO optimization very very hard to abuse.

            • @selfAEnglish
              2•3 months ago

              I hope so! this is something I’d like to implement, once I’ve got some free deployment resources and time.