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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by jpalomaki on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @02:56PM (#32828709)
For those annyoyed with ads on Google search, Kagi [1] is worth trying. It's not free, but does not show ads and uses the Google index behind the scenes. I've been using it on desktop for few months and have no complaints.

[1] https://kagi.com/

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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by JohnFen on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:38PM (#32829894)
> uses the Google index behind the scenes

Does it give better results than Google? I find Google's results to be pretty horrible, and worry that if Kagi is using Google's index, then I wouldn't get better results with them.

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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by Liquix on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:27PM (#32832613)
It does give better results. The filters can also be quite powerful.

The problem is paying a steep fee to proxy Google's index... It benefits you and Kagi in the short term, but strengthens the Google/Bing/Yandex index oligopoly [0] long term. Bad search results are the symptom - scarcity and opaqueness of viable indices is the root cause

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...

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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by freediver on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:50AM (#32847606)
> but strengthens the Google/Bing/Yandex index oligopoly

The way we look at it as that it gives Google a non-ad based source of revenue, which is a good thing for the future of the web. If one day that revenue could displace all ad-based revenue, by Google selling data to providers like Kagi, we would reverse the current state of the web.

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