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Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
submitted 1 week ago by noodlejetski@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.

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[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I do find it odd how a proprietary paid search engine seems to get such a large amount of praise within privacy communities when there are fundamental challenges in making a paid search engine actually private.

I think it's because of the incentives of a paid search engine. I don't pay for kagi myself, but I think the idea is that if you're paying for the product, they don't have much of an incentive to monetise your data, only to use it for legitimate uses.

Whether or not that is true is the question, though.