I apologize if this is old news, but I just noticed it. It looks like Kagi has added Fediverse Forums as a default Web search option.

    • denshi@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 years ago

      https://metager.org/ is run by a German non-profit. Since late last year it’s pay to use because their advertising partner (Yahoo) cancelled their contract without warning. But it’s cheaper than Kagi. Also the non-profit is part of the project that’s building the European OpenWebIndex ( https://ows.eu/ ) that’s releasing this year.

      • Shrouded0603@feddit.orgEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I used it a Little before it became pay to use and I was honestly impressed by search results (I was used to ddg, ecosia and qwant atp and mainly use ddg)

    • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I ask friends who are more intelligent than me

      And if they don’t know I assume it is forbidden knowledge that would drive me mad to know

      (I am only half joking)

        • MoonlightFox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Yes, but not fully. They have their own index as well. They have also recently started a partnership with Ecosia to focus more on that effort.

      • rsolva@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        And Qwant is really great! Have been using og for a couple of years, and have no need to fall back to Google, DDG etc.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Search engine? I started rawdoging urls a while ago.

      The internet is increasingly more useless, the sites i really need are bookmarked anyway.

      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 years ago

        And I like swiss cheese on my ham sandwiches. Oh, sorry, I thought we were just saying non sequitors.

        In all seriousness, that is not an answer to the question. Yes, some (often older) people will always use a search engine to find the same website they browse all the time. But search engines are also incredibly valuable for finding new things or verifying claims. I have a bookmark for the Warframe wiki but that doesn’t help me when I want to research different monitor energy efficiencies or find a repair guide for my toaster oven.

        And while people CAN collect a set of (searchable) websites for different topics they are interested in… that is how we got into (one of) our current mess(es). How many people just use reddit for everything and thus make themselves vulnerable to corporate shittery and misinformation campaigns.