• pianoplant@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Kagi at the moment. Just feels right to pay for incredibly useful services with money instead of privacy

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        1 year ago

        Google Search hasn’t been revolutionary since 2008. Most everyone has all but caught up over a decade ago. The only thing GS has is a monopoly by being the default search. Outside of that, their service is just like all the others (and in some cases worse at returning results).

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      1 year ago

      I totally agree, although information itself should be freely accessible for everyone. Nice topic for a discussion though!

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        Well it still is, the web is open to be indexed.
        Now paying for a service which has its own index sounds fine, but I personally don’t trust this model if the code isn’t open source as well (which kind of ties back into freely accessible information), though I can see it being hard to monetize if anyone can host their own version, unless the hardware infrastructure needed was really expensive

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        1 year ago

        Could you tell me what you’re on the fence about? I’m down to pay for a search engine to reduce my reliance on Google if it works well. DDG doesn’t do great with technical searches all the time

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          I honestly can’t say I’ve noticed much of a quality difference, so it doesn’t seem like a huge value add. I might just be oblivious though.

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        1 year ago

        I love the listicles feature. Not because I want to actually look at those results but because they’re all stripped out of the main search. Doing product research is so much better without all those low-quality “top whatever 2023” lists that take up the first 3 pages of google lol

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        1 year ago

        There are a lot of options: Bitcoin & Bitcoin lightning via opennode + Paypal, Venmo, iDeal, giropay, & stripe.

        Personally I converted some XMR to BTC then paid with that (using a single-use wallet)