Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
by Liquix on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:27PM
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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-...
Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
by freediver on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:50AM
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> 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.
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.