Tough to go from free to $10/month without any obvious to me improvements, as much as I’d like to support the cause
Totally valid. For me the killer feature is being able to change the weights for various sites, making it so websites with content that’s not useful to me or I don’t like don’t appear[1], pinning websites that I consider best-of-class for their relevant searches[2], and prioritizing websites I do like, but aren’t always the best answer[3].
They also have a “Lenses” feature that lets you make your own search lens (like I have one for Lemmy-only results), but I’ve not really had much use for those.
e.g. wikipedia, the ffxiv wiki ↩︎
e.g. opencritic, speedrun.com, cbc, w3schools, github ↩︎
I’m pretty sure there are browser extensions that already do this for you on Google. You can do it manually on each search but that’s obviously cumbersome. But browser extensions are basically what you’re describing and still free
There’s literally not. For blocking, sure, but not changing the behaviours of your search algorithm.
Oh so I’m just imagining this? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmialoiaghdehhbnbhkkgmjanfhe
It literally lets you construct a blacklist so those sites don’t show up in future search results.
This one has been around for over 5 years.
Blocks sites you specify from appearing in Google search results
I wonder if you even read my comment? Also chill, there’s no need to condescend over a search engine lmao.
Yeah you’re right. I only read up to the part about blocking sites and got excited to share my knowledge. Sorry.
It has a free trial. If you don’t see the improvements, don’t pay.
Pay for search? There should be another approach… at this rate will be paying for every single thing we do on internet and navigating properly would require a bunch of money .
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I understand and I agree. I tried it already and kagi is great. But I’m concerned about the amount of services we will need to pay in order to stay out of the eyes . I’m not sure if it’s the way.
We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I’d rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere
Paying a monthly service fee to not have the company sell your data under the guise of “free” sounds quite reasonable.
How do you know they don’t make you pay and still sell your data to get even more profit? Because no company who said they’re not evil was ever evil?
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This is unnecessarily defeatist.
Why defeatist? I didn’t say it doesn’t matter. I think that many, if not most, corporations are evil and you shouldn’t trust a single word they say unless you are able to independently verify it.
how do you know there isn’t a Lemmy instance running right now that’s collecting data with the intent to sell?
I don’t, but I also don’t put a lot of sellable information on Lemmy, I rather link to my own sites, where some of them have a CC-BY-SA license. I know that everything I put on the internet is basically free game for evil capitalists.
It’s either this or ads or selling your data
Oh, there’s a third way. Like DuckDuckGo & Qwant for example. Just have sponsored ads unrelated to you, or ads related to the specific search only (Without detailing your actual search terms to the one buying the ads) and selected companies in such “store” articles results.
User choice in the form of multiple tiers would be ideal. I might or might not pay to remove non-creepy ads depending on how they’re presented.
Who wants to celebrate by gifting me a year? Good news though as the prices were pretty ridiculous overall. I think I’ll stay on the $5 plan as I seem to be hitting ~170 searches a month ATM.
300 searches per month for 5 USD sounds a bit expensive. That’s about 10 searches per day. Sometimes I have had to try four or five variations of a search query to find what I am looking for on Google. Having to worry about exhausting a paid search quota sounds a little bit nerve-racking.
