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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'm not sure what exactly you're typing into the search field, but I don't anything like this. The top 3 sites I get for a search of "minerals" are wikipedia, australian museum, and britannica. Typing in "crystals" gets me a healthline article debunking crystal healing, but the following results are some woman's personal store and amazon. Lastly, being direct about wanting scientific articles gets me said articles...

Side note: Why are there so many people pushing for kagi in this thread and skipping over the fact that duckduckgo exists? It's kinda bizarre to see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’ve commented about potential Kagi astroturfing here before.

Seems likely to me.

Their trial - too short for me - felt like a private Google w/improvements.

Now, as a filthy freeloader, my default is DuckDuckGo. I am dissatisfied with the results and !bang out to Google (!g) about half the time. I pray DDG makes use of this data to improve their engine.

tl;dr astroturfing vs. bad results vs. enabling the king of adware

Gosh I need to set up SearXNG! Also “private Google” vibes. Instances here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Half the time?

I switch to another search engine about 1 in 100

[–] Donkter 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hell, typing in "scientific data about minerals" gets me a bunch of university geology department websites.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Why are there so many people pushing for kagi in this thread and skipping over the fact that duckduckgo exists?

It's a tide ad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I pretty much dislike that DDG is not opensource while preaching about privacy and stuff. But tbh no idea what Kagi is.

[–] Cris_Color 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Kagi is a paid ~~open source~~ and private search engine. Folks seem to really like the results they get from it 🤷🏻

Edit: not open source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kagi is not open source as far as I can tell. They have a few open source small projects but the bulk of it is closed source.

[–] Cris_Color 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, thanks for the correction! I think I confused it with another search engine and mixed the two together in my head

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe searxng?

[–] Cris_Color 2 points 8 months ago

Nah, it was stract, which if I understand correctly is open source and has it's own index. Though the results haven't been amazing in my experience. Still, it's exciting it exists though :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Google results are different for everyone by design. Results vary per person because of assumptions made about what you'd like to see. I believe the term is filter bubbles.

Idk if anything has changed since but a high school teacher showed us this in a computer lab. She gave us an exact phrase to type in and we all compared search results. They were similar enough to be useful but had significant differences in what the first page showed. And we weren't even signed in to our school accounts, when we did it was even worse.