▲ 107 ▼ Thoughts on Kagi? (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by wavydotdot@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml 110 comments fedilink hide all child comments I've been using this search engine and I have to say I'm absolutely in love with it. Search results are great, Google level even. Can't tell you how happy I am after trying multiple privacy oriented engines and always feeling underwhelmed with them. Have you tried it? What are your thoughts on it?
[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 years ago (2 children) It's not open source, at least to my knowledge. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] wavydotdot@lemmy.world [S] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children) No it is not. They are "increasingly open source", whatever that truly means. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 years ago It means absolutely nothing permalink fedilink source parent [–] sudneo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago It means that they are open sourcing an increasing number of components? In the very same page they are linked: browser extensions, libraries they use for their AI features. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago That's the problem, though, given the cost of indexing it. I'm not sure there's a single open source search engine that doesn't rely on some sort of proprietary software. My philosophy is that if the product is free, you likely are the product.? We would almost need a donation-based search engine to get around that, which would likely would not be sustainable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wavydotdot@lemmy.world [S] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children) No it is not. They are "increasingly open source", whatever that truly means. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 years ago It means absolutely nothing permalink fedilink source parent [–] sudneo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago It means that they are open sourcing an increasing number of components? In the very same page they are linked: browser extensions, libraries they use for their AI features. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 years ago It means absolutely nothing permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sudneo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago It means that they are open sourcing an increasing number of components? In the very same page they are linked: browser extensions, libraries they use for their AI features. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago That's the problem, though, given the cost of indexing it. I'm not sure there's a single open source search engine that doesn't rely on some sort of proprietary software. My philosophy is that if the product is free, you likely are the product.? We would almost need a donation-based search engine to get around that, which would likely would not be sustainable. permalink fedilink source parent