E.g. I want to get opinions about whether to use or not use assert() within PHP. And I bet there are a couple of posts out there with pros and cons and opinions on general. I'm looking for them.
But general searches only return docs, StackOverflow, etc. …
@Konafets I couldn't find anything related on their site. Looks like this is a Mac exclusive Desktop Application? Maybe I should have been more clear. I want a web search within my browser. Also best would be “for free” as I don't need it that often and don't want to go the way I tried with #Kagi where I pay way too much for the one to three searches I do per month.
But thanks for pointing that out, it might be helpful for others.
@emill1984#Kagi jest fantastyczne, obecnie testuję wersję Ultimate,która m.innymi daje dostęp do Chat GPT 4 oraz Claude 2.
Tip: Można w polu wyszukiwania użyć skrótu !chat i od razu pisać komendy do AI.
@jantzen Yes! Thanks for the recommendation. I was subscribed to #Kagi for a while, but decided to stick with #Ecosia (for now) because they plant trees with their profits.
I hate that I'm now a frequent user of ChatGPT. It's not that it's good, it's just that Google has become so unbelievably useless that it's near impossible to get usable results. It's like they've reverted to pure keyword based search. I just get results that (sometimes) contain my search terms, but not relevant to the context of my search.
I've been playing with #KagiSearch today and I've gone from skeptical to in love. I've never felt so much at the center with any search service before. I guess that's what a service where the user is the customer, not the product looks like.
I'm really considering paying €10/m... for a search service!
We (minus @amolith) talk about the Watt-Wise Game Jam, Kagi including results from Brave's API, and AI anti-vitriol, then we interrogate @jbauer about life, the universe, and everything (what OSes he uses and how he edits the show).
I’ve been testing #Kagi for the last week or so (yes I know about the Brave drama, but I don't want to go there).
So far I'm impressed with the results and I'm considering subscribing. But they had an outage yesterday which lasted HOURS, and because their extension basically intercepts and redirect any search traffic, I couldn't just visit DDG and search. I had to disable the ext first (which is a pain in Safari).
This has me questioning whether a fledgling search engine is the right choice…
Withdrawal syndroms are over, farewell #kagi.
I’m quite happy going back to #Qwant as a search engine and I use various #searxng when I need different results
#DuckDuckGo, always the obvious "not Google" choice; but ISTR them having their own ethical quandaries? & are "just Bing"? Brief trial "feels good” tho, need to dig more.
#Ecosia sounds like a nice idea, but is probably just greenwashing?
#Marginalia is cool but not quite the same level as Goog/DDG/Kagi, too narrowly focused to be a catchall.
I WISH FOR one or more trustworthy companies like e.g. @protonmail, not backed by venture capitalists, to develop an ad-free, #privacy respecting, customizable #search engine that provides good search results, and search results not based on Google and Bing.
A paid for service but affordable by many/most people. Not a rich man's search engine like e.g. #kagi (108 USD a year). 🤔
#Kagi: a paid search engine with 0 tracking and 0 ads. Choosing to use it is obviously taking a stance against the status quo imposed by Google et al., literally "voting with your money" with the hope of having an ethical AND sustainable web.
Also #Kagi: "pOliTiCs fiNdiNg itS wAy iNto tEcH iS oNe oF tHe rEasOns wE do nOT hAvE iNnovAtion aNy mOrE"
Given the whole current situation with Kagi and Brave and my disappointment at the CEO's "keep politics out of tech" tech bro BS, I fear I might have to switch search engines again.
What I want is basically Google's index without its tracking, and being able to completely remove whole domains from the results (killer feature of Kagi for me). Happy to pay.
I've tried DDG in the past and was not happy with the quality. Maybe searxng? But no filtering there.
To be able to properly evaluate #SearXNG as an alternative to #Kagi, I've just set up an instance in my homelab.
Next Kagi payment cycle is coming up next week, until then I'll hopefully know if this works or not. If anything can test how well a search engine works for me, it's a work week.
The experience with my self-hosted #SearXNG meta search engine is so far not perfect, but good enough.
I've just cancelled my #Kagi Pro subscription and will delete the account once that runs out on Sunday.
I wanted to love Kagi, loved its (stated) goals, but if the project leader goes all "keep politics out of tech" as reaction to criticism about collaborating with Brave, then it's apparently just one more tech-bro project out there, and I don't need to support that with my money.