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.
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