> Use a search engine that suppresses spammy sites and lets you customise what you want it to surface.
Can you give an example of such a search engine? Which one(s) do you use and why?
Can you give an example of such a search engine? Which one(s) do you use and why?
https://search.brave.com/help/goggles
There is a list (search) of public goggles: https://search.brave.com/goggles
The goggles itself are just text files with basic syntax and can be hosted on e.g. github gist. (though you have to publish it to brave)
https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart/blob/main/goggle...
Tbh, I can’t really compare brave search to kagi, since I never used kagi (though I’m using Orion - webkit based browser from the same dev and love it). Afaik, brave search is using its own index, thus making the results somehow limited and inferior to kagis. Just wanted to throw some (free) alternative here that works for me. :)
* Note that Brave search, despite privacy oriented, is still ad funded and there was few controversies about brave’s (browser) privacy in the past. (if that’s relevant for you)
* I’m not affiliated with Brave in any way.
(No connection with kagi.com except being a very satisfied user)
Pay for it, so search results are the product, instead of an ad platform sold to advertisers with you as the product.
I've tried a couple of searches on the free tier and they gave pretty much the same results. I only have so many free searches to check too.
https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-features
If you prefer LLMs to Googling, then at least consider "phind":
This is definitely a departure because when I subscribed to Kagi a couple months ago, all of my Google results for similar searches were SEO spam blogs filled with Amazon affiliate links that look like they had just sucked some Amazon reviews automatically into some poor facade to generate affiliate revenue.
These results were a surprise to me. Not sure what changed.
I imagine what changed is that Kagi started getting traction on site like here and some managers at google actually did something about it.
My own test "voynich illuminated manuscript" which used to give nothing but pintrest spam on google. Now there is just one result from pintrest in google and pretty much every result in Kagi is from pintrest.
There is an academic tab which seems interesting. I will give it a try later.