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What search engine do you use? (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by SemioticStandard to c/technology

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Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google.

I use a mix of DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I'll also use ChatGPT, which can be good if you're careful to verify the answers it gives you as a check against hallucinations. It's useful for short, direct answers without ads or SEO bullshit.

This article on Ars (and if you're not a subscriber, you absolutely should be, as they are the best tech journalists out there) inspired the question: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/google-admits-reddit-protests-make-it-harder-to-find-helpful-search-results

Fucking Reddit. Enshittification ruins everything.

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[–] PeterBronez@hachyderm.io 12 points 1 year ago (16 children)

@SemioticStandard Kagi. I used DDG for a long time, and Kagi is strictly better. Specifically, it’s very snappy and I trust the privacy guarantees even more since I’m a paying customer.

[–] Goronmon@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...I trust the privacy guarantees even more since I’m a paying customer.

How effective is this stance? While using a service for free basically guarantees there are privacy concerns, paying doesn't directly provide any assurances. They can both charge you money and sell your data.

But Kagi seems pretty expensive, and too reliant on Bing/Google search pricing to be a long-term solution.

[–] PeterBronez@hachyderm.io 1 points 1 year ago

certainly it’s not a panacea. But Kagi’s entire value proposition is that they charge you to cover their costs. If they sell my data, they lose all credibility and the business dies more or less immediately. That creates a strong incentive for them to build in privacy by default.

Plus it just feels better to me. I’m sick of the hidden cost of free digital services. I sleep better when I pay for the things I need.

@Goronmon @SemioticStandard

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