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Thoughts on KagiHQ? Is it worth paying for a search engine? (lemm.ee)

submitted 19 hours ago by Itzdestroyed@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Basically the title. There are other privacy focused+free search engines, such as duckduckgo, startpage and brave search. What makes Kagi worth the $10/month?

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[–] EmbarrassedDrum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'm happy with SearXNG. At the time I had issues with each search engine, and this meta search engine is great for me.

You can run one locally on your device, or connect it to a domain like I did, so I use it everywhere: seek[.]agurav[.]xyz You're welcome to try mine, or use it daily. it'll blend my own activity a bit so it's good for me. For u, you'll have to trust my word that I don't sell your data or something. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Ultimately, give it a try, and then host your own or use a public instance that you trust.

[–] Alborlin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Okay.

[–] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I've been trying to get into Searx for about a month now, but I just cannot make it work the way I want it to.
The auto-detect is constantly in the wrong country, sometimes throwing me to a random one if I search for a product e.g.
If I lock it to one country it works better, but then it excludes so much potentially useful data.

Any advice on how to set it up a bit to make it work better?

[–] liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 minutes ago

I believe the auto-detect is based on a geo-ip database. If you are connecting from a VPN or datacenter IP then I imagine you might have unexpected results.