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It's a simple answer because you don't pay them for that. They run a balancing act of providing you useful results while also surreptitiously shoving trash, th
by elmerfud 5y ago
It's a simple answer because you don't pay them for that. They run a balancing act of providing you useful results while also surreptitiously shoving trash, that they actually make money off of, at you and hoping you won't notice or complain.
- PaulHoule 5y agoIf the search results were perfect you'd never look at an ad.
- lijogdfljk 5y agoA good argument for some distributed foss search then i guess. Wonder if it could ever be made to have search results return reasonably fast in a distributed large index?
- beamatronic 5y agoSometimes I am searching for information, and I want facts. Sometimes I am researching a purchase, and I want the sellers to compete for my purchase. Perhaps it makes sense to give search engines more context, such as, whether your intent is to spend money or not.
- dharmab 5y agoKagi will be paid when it exits beta and has this feature!
- jbverschoor 5y agoWhich means you can never use it in an incognito session without logging in
- dharmab 5y agoAn incognito session provides privacy against other people who have casual access to your computer. It provides no extra security or privacy in the context of search providers.
- CWuestefeld 5y agoDisagree. When the FBI comes to them asking for a list of everyone who's done a search for "pipe bomb", your anonymity would have been welcome.
- dharmab 5y agoKagi doesn't log much identifying information, so the government would have to compel them to change their system with a national security letter LavaBit style. https://kagi.com/privacy https://kagi.com/privacy
- freediver 5y agoWhile there is certainly possibility of FBI asking for this, I am afraid we couldn't respond to such request. Reason is simply we do not log or associate searches with an account. Our business model is selling subscriptions, not data. (Kagi Founder here)
- kelnos 5y agoI've been using Kagi for the past couple months (and love it so far!), but whenever I open a private browsing window, I revert back to DDG. Even though you say you don't associate search queries with accounts, it's hard for me to get over the "mental hump" to truly feel that in my bones and feel comfortable entering a "private" query while being signed in. I know it's not entirely rational. I mean, maybe it is a little bit rational: I only have your word (some random person that I don't know) that you don't -- and, critically, will never -- log queries associated with account. But regardless, it's hard to feel private when I'm entering something into a form on a website where I'm signed in as myself.