Or just switch to Kagi and cease twisting yourself into pretzels to get software that doesn't want to do what you want, to do what you want. Kagi simply does what you want.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/widgets.html ("Each widget can be individually toggled")
No Kagi experience to date has led me to think words like "...in a fit of rage against Kagi search" or attempt to swear at it. Software shouldn't do that.
When I tested Kagi, I thought that it just doesn't do what I want. At some things it was better, but the small things, they add up.
Did you adjust your settings to make them what you want, or did you throw away the whole thing because you didn't agree with the defaults for everyone?
Things like the missing info widgets, missing "People also ask", the mapbox maps being not good. Things required more clicks.
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Kagi search results are great, but keywords are not highlighted. How is it usable? Is there an option to enable highlighting?
I can concur - google search product is not usable for a long time. Kagi is probably the only search product that work like a search product is supposed to.
I'll never pay for web search, sorry.
For most people it's the entry point into the internet.
there are arguments for both sides. But still asking the advertising sales man for directions every time you start a journeys might not lead to your goal.
That's fine, then you just have to deal with ads, 'sponsored results' and the AI spam. And the tracking, if you care about that.
You don’t have to deal with that when using a suitable ad blocker.
You're still dealing with the fact that Google ranks results based partly on ad-revenue, so even if you're blocking the ads you're getting routed to spammier sites.
Link! Jeez, this is blatantly false.
... For now, and only partially. I'm not aware of any AI blocker that exists.
Not to mention Google Chrome doesn't even allow full fat ad blockers.
> Google Chrome
That would be an awfully weird browser choice after all the privacy/ad-blocking talk.
... or chromium.
There's only one viable option, and it's firefox and derivatives. Some tech people haven't figured this out yet, forgive me if I assumed wrong. This is, after all, in a conversation about using Google Search.
As if adblockers/browser extensions wouldn't deal with those (minus the tracking)...
That stance seems to be the problem and what lead us all to where we are now.
Maybe we should consider paying for more things, not less.
> Maybe we should consider paying for more things, not less.
People would be so happy. As the people "owning" a Volkswagen ID.3 or ID.4 when they learned they need to pay a monthly fee for more horsepower.
That's a non-sequitur if I've ever seen one.
Paying for a service which costs money != Paying a subscription to digitally unlock a physical feature in a product that you already paid for.
Service vs product. I pay ongoing for my services and I expect to purchase my product once.
maybe we should consider getting more wages so we could pay for more things. oh wait, that's not really up for our consideration (past a certain point I suppose)
This logic implies that money spent on advertising isn't eventually recouped from you. Given that businesses don't engage in charity, there must be an invisible hand of the market reaching into your pocket and taking $5 when you aren't looking, while you thank them for providing you with a "free" service.
this logic implies that if people had the money to spend on services and they spent that money on services the invisible hand of the market would say "no, that's enough for me, I don't need to take any more"
this logic also implies that money recouped eventually is just as valuable to people who are living paycheck to paycheck as money taken at the beginning of the month when people need to figure out how they are going to make it to the end of the month when, damn, the sink in the bathroom just sprung a leak.
this logic furthermore implies that if one were to press and say hey, show me the data on the invisible hand taking the 5 dollars, the distribution of such (for example are there incomes which would be better served by the invisible hand taking what it can, and incomes better served by paying?) that such data would be forthcoming - but experience shows that sometimes logics do not deliver all they imply.
finally this logic implies that budgeting does not work the way it does, that people do not know how much they are getting paid and they look at their bills and they say hey we can afford to pay for this service or not. No, the logic seems to think that people get paid the amount they get paid, see how much they can afford and also eat until the end of the month, but since they know the invisible hand will be taking from them somehow they bravely say let the children starve, we are going to support the economy dang it.
You should start a business. Any business. Even making and selling music or art.
Honestly, I'm glad that I pay for web search. How Kagi makes money is clear to me, and given that this (and merch) is the only thing they make money on, they are motivated to make it the best product possible. Also, no ads and no mandatory AI slop.
You're paying for it one way or another.
You want me to pay to search the internet?
Could you please label your post *sponsored content*!
It's not a sponsored content but a happy user sharing with its community.
> You want me to pay to search the internet?
Yes. Or you pay and get privacy and good results or you don't pay and they decide which results are better for their profits. That's not how it should work. Companies should build good software so that users use them, not because they have the monopoly and can do dark patterns that result in good profits for them at the expense of the user privacy. Google is not a good software company anymore, their products are abandoned and UX is in extreme decadence in favour of AI.
On the other hand, Kagi uses AI to provide good results and give the best UX to its users. You see? The other way around.
It sounds good but I feel little uneasy about them paying Yandex
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