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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I used to pay for kagi, but their CEO have some opinions that I absolutely hate about how to handle some issues, and this was a deal breaker for me. Nowadays I'm using searxng

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What opinions can I ask? first time I've heard this

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

They announced a few months ago that they would partner with Brave to surface Brave search results too. The CEO of Brave is known to be homophobic. People got mad, and Kagiโ€™s response was that they are too small to be picky, and have to focus on search quality.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And theres the issue someone opened on their page suggesting to include a special card on suicide related searches telling people how to find help, and the CEO dismissed saying it can be just someone curious making the search and he don't want to "set a precedent" on showing things the user is not actively searching

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I... think I agree with that though.

I'm not saying there isn't a grey area between being socially conscious or full blow libertarian, but I do think that a search engine operates much better when it is unrestricted by societal qualms.

Look how stunted ChatGPT becomes with each new rendition, or how SDXL is far more restrictive in what it can express compared to its earlier SD1.5 models.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

And also, like, their partnership with one of the most immoral companies on this planet drive most of the search results quality from the very beginning (Google). You didn't sign up for a morally perfect search engine.

When people made such a huge fuss about the CEO of some minor index that Kagi also happens to use beside like 10 others being a douche, all I could do is shake my head.