At dusk, John Mastodon stood in the field, surrounded by his weary comrades. His eyes surveyed the slayn serach engines that covered the ground. It is good, he said. We remain free. Plant the hashtags to mark our victory.
At dusk, John Mastodon stood in the field, surrounded by his weary comrades. His eyes surveyed the slayn serach engines that covered the ground. It is good, he said. We remain free. Plant the hashtags to mark our victory.
In @Vivaldi, we provide a set of search engine choices. It differs a bit from country to country, but generally we have a nice set of search engines to choose from.
I would advice that you select one of the smaller search engines. They are generally better when it comes to privacy and you are supporting an alternative to Big Tech, although most of them get their search feeds from either Google or Microsoft at this time. That also means that switching from Google or Bing will allow you to get similar search results, while stepping away from Big Tech, so the switching cost should be lower.
So what is your favorite search engine?
#Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #iOS #Computer #mobile #search #BigTech #Vivaldi @Vivaldi
It requires about 6 keywords these days to have a chance of finding what you are looking for after skipping pages of SEO crap.
So #search is having problems in #burma? I tried searching for poetry and nothing came up..
Can anyone from #mastodonsuport or #mastodonhelp or #fediversehelp or #fediverse give me a hand?
Appreciate the recognition from Cory Doctorow:
"This year saw some new, exciting discovering and challenges. First and foremost is my switch to kagi.com as my preferred search-engine, which is like having access to a time machine that's connected to pre-enshittificated Google"
"Kagi's image search is amazing, far better than Google's, and it has great copyright-based filters."
Hannah Kobayashi, missing Maui woman, found safe after month-long search
Kobayashi, a budding photographer from Maui, was reported missing a month ago after relatives received “strange and cryptic” text messages, prompting a massive search.
#missingperson #search #found #Maui #Trending #USNews #HannahKobayashi #HannahKobayashiMissing
https://globalnews.ca/news/10913458/hannah-kobayashi-found-safe-missing/
Useful tips on using Bangs and Snaps to search smarter on Kagi
https://taonaw.com/2024/12/11/kagi-bangs-and.html
Thanks to @jtr!
New Kagi Translate updates
Translate as you type for Ultimate members
Instant translation without page reloads
Added language search, no more scrolling through the list!
Give it a try: https://translate.kagi.com/
Kagi Translate is free from tracking and is more privacy conscious without compromising on quality.
«Can Europe build itself a rival to Google?
#Ecosia and #Qwant are teaming up to create a European search index, aiming to break the dominance of #Google and reduce #Europe's reliance on #US tech giants. Can they succeed in challenging the status quo?»
Their are dependent on #Microsoft #Bing, none of the services ar #decentralized community-supported #search on the #web. I like to use @Mojeek, #SearXNG services, #Stract & co for my peace from data collection.
https://www.dw.com/en/can-europe-build-itself-a-rival-to-google/a-70898027
When I search for a specific search string on the @ACM's digital library, the engine tries to be helpful by including "discussion" when I asked for "discourse", which means something very specific.
Is there any way I can turn this off?
It's not helpful to have the kind of automatic inferences otherwise useful to #Search in general be made when searching an academic DB, especially when in "advanced mode".
According to Statista, advertisers spent $185.35 billion to influence your search results in 2022. By 2028, they'll spend $261 billion
At Kagi, we believe your attention and data shouldn't be for sale - that's why we work directly for users, not advertisers or any third parties.
We invite you to join our End-of-Year Community Event on December 20th at 9am PST!
This 90 minute session will feature a "Year in Review" presentation and Community Q&A.
Register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88982083131
Submit and upvote questions in advance:
https://wewerewondering.com/event/01JEASR9ZJ9YP0YWSX7GHWNXHR
Daily Inspiration: *"It’s no longer what you know - it’s that you know where to look!" *- Futurist Jim Carroll
*Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, "25 Things I've Learned That Will Carry Me Into 2025." He is putting this together based on his 30-year career as a futurist, trends, and innovation expert, advising leaders of some of the world's most prestigious organizations on how to align to a faster future. He intends for the series to provide valuable guidance to others eager to learn how to move through a year that promises to be volatile, unpredictable, and full of uncertainty. Each day, the post will go out on multiple mailing lists, social media networks, and to the Website ****https://2025inspiration.jimcarroll.com***
One of the biggest problems with the information age is that there is too much information!
I was reminded of this reality just the other day while preparing my lists of topics for this series when I came across this social media post by a fellow who goes by the social media name MikeInTheFront. He's a pilot of an Airbus A220 with Air Canada and often posts a mix of information about both his professional life as well as hobbies.
The first part of his post noted his new responsibility with the airline:
*"Becoming a training captain in the new year and my motivation to read my manuals has increased dramatically for fear of being outgunned with knowledge. Time to hit the books"*
But it was the second comment that hit the nail on the head in terms of today's knowledge reality:
*Disclaimer: you’ll never know everything. But having good base knowledge or knowing where to find the information you need is a good start.*
And that right there is one of the most important skills you need in the fast-moving world - increasingly, it's not just what you know, but increasingly, your ability to find what you don't know.
*Having a good base knowledge of where to find the information you need is sometimes all you need.*
#Information #Knowledge #Research #Skills #Search #Navigation #Intelligence #Data #Success #Learning
The web we want isn't free, but it's worth paying for.
My biggest problem with FOSS distributions is on Firefox. Unless they are a small project none of them changed the default search to anything else. Literally anything else other than Google would be fine.
I don’t want my first task when using a browser is to go to change the default Search to just something better.
And no, they don’t have an excuse for this practice.
#firefox #linux #foss #opensource #browser #google #search #distribution
To all our amazing Kagi users, we're grateful for you! As a token of our appreciation, you can now share the gift of better search with three friends or family members. You should have received an email with the details
Google is required to include any search engine that meets specific criteria, such as having an app with over 5,000 installs, in the default list for Android and Chrome.
We'd love it if you install the Kagi app and help us meet the criteria! We're almost there:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kagi.search
→ We’re Doing What Searchbots Can’t
https://thewalrus.ca/were-doing-what-searchbots-cant/
“[Summarization tools incorporated into the search engines are] a boon for people seeking quick answers, but a bane for publishers. Disincentivizing curious users from clicking through to a news site for additional information—a trend called zero-click search—sends less traffic to media outlets that invest in the costly #reporting that #AI machines are scraping, strip-mining, and synthesizing.”
Committed my first ever commit and PR to an open source git repo, namely the bang library for @kagihq. I've used Github tons at work, and some for purely personal code, but I'd never actually contributed to an open source project. It was just a JSON config file (it's a source repo for other downstream code), but it's sort of cool contributing to a wider effort. They haven't accepted it yet, but it'll be neat to see it in play if they do.