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I'm very happy to see this exists! While I support Kagi, I believe they just use Bing API for most search results. We need real alternatives with their own sear

I'm very happy to see this exists! While I support Kagi, I believe they just use Bing API for most search results. We need real alternatives with their own search index. Of course, we need to hamper our expectations. Google reportedly indexed over 400 billion pages in 2020, whereas Mojeek reported just 6 billion pages in 2023. So I'm not expecting to be wowed by Mojeek, but so far it doesn't seem too bad. Actually what excites me about it is it seems to use a more basic keyword search, unlike Google and Bing which are quite liberal in how they interpret your search query. If you're looking for specific keywords or a specific string, you may have better luck using Mojeek.

promiseofbeans 2y ago
Kagi displays what portion of results are from their own index - I almost always see 50% or higher on this. I think they also use a mix of several external indexes rather than solely bing. Kagi also has the advantage of letting you customise rankings to your preferences: I've got mine set to always pin a relevant wikipedia article to the very top, and to bubble MDN pages up and w3schools pages down.
- e40 2y ago
  > Kagi also has the advantage of letting you customise rankings to your preferences: I've got mine set to always pin a relevant wikipedia article to the very top, and to bubble MDN pages up and w3schools pages down. How do you do this? I don't see it in the options.
  - hobofan 2y ago
    For a search result you can click on the shield icon, and select the ranking preference for the results of that domain. You can also manually add domains here: https://kagi.com/settings?p=user_ranked https://kagi.com/settings?p=user_ranked
vishnumohandas 2y ago
Kagi uses Mojeek's index as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20231105004927/https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html https://web.archive.org/web/20231105004927/https://help.kagi...
- hobofan 2y ago
  Mojeek isn't mentioned on the up-to-date version of this page, so not really an indication whether they still use their index.
  - freediver 2y ago
    We do.
    - hobofan 2y ago
      Ah, cool! Thanks for the clarification! :)

promiseofbeans 2y ago

Kagi displays what portion of results are from their own index - I almost always see 50% or higher on this. I think they also use a mix of several external indexes rather than solely bing. Kagi also has the advantage of letting you customise rankings to your preferences: I've got mine set to always pin a relevant wikipedia article to the very top, and to bubble MDN pages up and w3schools pages down.

e40 2y ago
> Kagi also has the advantage of letting you customise rankings to your preferences: I've got mine set to always pin a relevant wikipedia article to the very top, and to bubble MDN pages up and w3schools pages down. How do you do this? I don't see it in the options.
- hobofan 2y ago
  For a search result you can click on the shield icon, and select the ranking preference for the results of that domain. You can also manually add domains here: https://kagi.com/settings?p=user_ranked https://kagi.com/settings?p=user_ranked

vishnumohandas 2y ago

Kagi uses Mojeek's index as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20231105004927/https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html https://web.archive.org/web/20231105004927/https://help.kagi...

hobofan 2y ago
Mojeek isn't mentioned on the up-to-date version of this page, so not really an indication whether they still use their index.
- freediver 2y ago
  We do.
  - hobofan 2y ago
    Ah, cool! Thanks for the clarification! :)