• Gluten6970@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      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