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   Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@rebased.taihou.website)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:13:37 JST Johnny Peligro
   what search engine do you use?
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:13:36 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @mischievoustomato i play the lottery of broken searx instances with searx.neocities.org
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     thegreatape (thegreatape@thechimp.zone)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:13:48 JST thegreatape

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     @mischievoustomato Ever since I found out about kagi I'm not goin back to anyone else.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:16:06 JST iced depresso

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     @olmitch @mischievoustomato @thegreatape some people around fedi are on food stamps and charity programs. so yeah, they probably can't.
     
     although a lot of results lately have been "all from external indexes" for me so idk.
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     Mitch Conner (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:16:07 JST Mitch Conner

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     • thegreatape
     I refuse to believe you cannot scrape together ten dollars for an entire month of high quality search results. Go look for quarters under soda machines or something.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@rebased.taihou.website)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:16:08 JST Johnny Peligro

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     im poor :(
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     Mitch Conner (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:19:31 JST Mitch Conner

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     • thegreatape
     Bro. Ten dollars. For the whole month. Thirty cents a day.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:19:31 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @olmitch @mischievoustomato @thegreatape what makes this search engine worth $10? Does it log or sell my info or associate it with me since I'm paying them? Can I pay with monero or other pseudo anonymous crypto? Is it unlimited for that cost?
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@rebased.taihou.website)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:19:32 JST Johnny Peligro

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     The situation for me is funny. I have to look after my mom and also study, and getting a stable job would make dealing with those things hard.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@rebased.taihou.website)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:21:37 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @RustyCrab can also answer this
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     Mitch Conner (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:26:13 JST Mitch Conner

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     • thegreatape
     it's an incredibly small company, they just celebrated 20k users https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k
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     Dan_Hulson (dan_hulson@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:26:15 JST Dan_Hulson

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     @BowsacNoodle @olmitch @mischievoustomato @thegreatape The search engine of Kings innit
     
     etsi.me/
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     thegreatape (thegreatape@thechimp.zone)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:26:15 JST thegreatape

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
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     @Dan_Hulson @BowsacNoodle @mischievoustomato @olmitch How have I never heard of this til today :Thinker:
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:26:48 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • Rusty Crab
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     @mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @olmitch @thegreatape I'm not opposed to paying for that if it's worth it. Since I started using a few new search engines I've had good results. Ecosia, Yandex, startpage (meh), searx are good for most things.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:53:29 JST Rusty Crab

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     • thegreatape
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     @BowsacNoodle @mischievoustomato @olmitch @thegreatape Extremely tight integration for search tools (ranking, AI, blocking). Their own index which doesn't ban small web results (like google does). An actual business motivation to get you what you need and off of their search engine (as opposed to other engines who are motivated to keep you looking at ads not finding what you need). AI assistance with searching and citations. Easy link previews via archives. Quick Answer is phenominal for pointing you in the right direction when your question isn't "search engine friendly".
     
     I'm not exaggerating when I say it saves me AT LEAST an hour per day of crawling through the web looking for things. They have a free trial if you want to give it a go.
     
     Plus they don't block VPNs, which is great for me since every other engine is just a never ending cycle of capchas now.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:53:29 JST Rusty Crab

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     @BowsacNoodle @mischievoustomato @olmitch @thegreatape I should mention that Brave Search is a pretty good alternative these days for free tier. It's come a long way in the past year. However its image search is still monumental ass. Kagi's image search quality is shocking.
     
     I haven't had to use google in 6 months and it feels great. (sans when I didn't have my kagi credentials on a new OS).
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 03:05:29 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @RustyCrab @mischievoustomato it seems to find stuff for me personally, in any case ya.ru is a good alternative for me
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 03:05:30 JST Rusty Crab

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     @lina @mischievoustomato yeah that was a major thing that turned me off of searx. Half the time I went to instances they were just down. The rest of the time they returned me verbatim google results. Anonymity isn't as much of a problem for me as "google results are just bullshit now and I can't find anything on there"
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 03:14:17 JST Phantasm

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     @RustyCrab @lina @mischievoustomato Surprising since Google is the first that bans any Search server.
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     Mitch Conner (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 03:38:00 JST Mitch Conner

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     If nothing else, you're getting free keys to like 3 different premium AIs. but yeah, I kind of shit bricks my first few searches. Like, I used to spend hours trying to find AOL Gamera back in the day, it was a white whale and Kagi found me a working download link in moments.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@rebased.taihou.website)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 03:43:23 JST Johnny Peligro

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     i dont like having to juggle a lot of things that do the same thing one another, it's annoying as fuck.
     And yea, paying for stuff that's worth it and is genuinely useful should be encouraged.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 03:46:35 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @RustyCrab @mischievoustomato @olmitch @thegreatape I'd give ecosia a shot if you haven't. it found obscure forum posts from 2010 recently which is rare and valuable in the diy / "maker" space since SEO ruins everything. If Kagi can properly search, I'll pay for it. And then I'll be donating to my home instance with monero. Can't freeload forever.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 04:08:09 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @RustyCrab @mischievoustomato @olmitch @thegreatape >"learn about the history of black trans pioneers in Antarctica"
     This is quintessential google. Somebody should make a google doodle generator that pulls AI images based on grab bag mintories and does cal arts and write a fake biography for them. If I could code, I would.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 04:08:10 JST Rusty Crab

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     @BowsacNoodle @mischievoustomato @olmitch @thegreatape I'll give ecosa a shot just to see how it ranks. I'd love to recommend people more ways to get off google.
     
     Some people don't care about this either but it's really nice to have a search engine that has surpassed google and not having to look at google's front page every day saying "learn about the history of black trans pioneers in Antarctica"
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 04:08:43 JST Rusty Crab

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     @mischievoustomato @BowsacNoodle @olmitch @thegreatape I would previously attempt to get around their front page bullshit by using VPNs to other countries. They have since aggressively blocked VPNs however to the point where captchas can take upwards of 15 minutes to complete.
     
     If you're not in America, you don't get the kind of preposterous shit on their front page that we do. Every other day it's like "help Black Trans Youth in your area" "click here to donate to Nigger Businesses" "Learn about White Supremacy and how you can stop it". It's so god damn tiring.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@rebased.taihou.website)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 04:08:44 JST Johnny Peligro

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     i care about this shit when it starts to be unusable. I'm a pragmatist at heart and well google makes me what to rape sundar pichai on a daily bases
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     VIc FooReeee (vicfury@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 04:12:15 JST VIc FooReeee

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     @BowsacNoodle @RustyCrab @mischievoustomato @olmitch @thegreatape

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     PodunkPotato (podunkpotato@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 05:40:24 JST PodunkPotato

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     Good sign for the Kagi quick answers....
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 05:41:59 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @VIcFury @RustyCrab @mischievoustomato @olmitch @thegreatape >black trapioneers
     >brrrrrt skreet
     >*808 triplet noises*
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     VIc FooReeee (vicfury@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 05:42:00 JST VIc FooReeee

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     @BowsacNoodle @RustyCrab @mischievoustomato @olmitch @thegreatape