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"Simple answer, just get everyone to stay home for three weeks and the virus will die out"

"Simple answer, just stop electing corrupt politicans"

"Simple answer, just stop war"

Kagi is good enough. Haven’t used a Google product for 12+ months expect as required by my employer (or YouTube but with an ad blocker).

Not saying calling for a boycott is enough but it’s easy to avoid Google nowadays.

"... it’s easy to avoid Google nowadays."

If it says "Google", you really don't want it.

Some may be a little slow to come around to this realization but it's growing.

For example, more than half of internet users are now taking active steps to block "personalized advertising" which is Google's bread and butter.

Subscribing to Kagi is definitely easier (and less costly!) than handling the pandemic, ensuring world peace and utopian government.

Edit to add: and since we're talking about indie web: https://search.marginalia.nu/

Me subscribing to it is. Getting everyone I know to subscribe to it is at least a step more complex than getting people to move to Firefox, and I haven't quite worked out a strategy for that yet.

Search results being absolutely shit is probably more of a problem for people than their choice of browser.

When someone complains to you directly about Google search results being shit, maybe point them to Kagi and mention it has a free trial account (100 searches still?) that's not time limited.

That way they'll have a solution they can turn to the next time Google pisses them off significantly. :)

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had someone complain to me about Google search results, other than people who already don’t use Google.

Interesting. I definitely have, though I do tend to hang out with IT-ish people a lot.

I’ll be honest, I don’t want my searches necessarily always tied to my identity.

The above marginalia.nu just surfaced the following very nice article for me, which neither Google nor Kagi returned in their top 10 search results for the same terms ('thaad aegis hwasong'):

https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/the-rol...

(duckduckgo.com returned it as the 5th returned result (not bad)),

Thanks!

Are you really comparing typing a dozen characters into a browser's URL bar and hitting Enter with "stop war"?

Using a different search engine, is just about the easiest kind of switch you could do. It's easier than, say, eating a different type of snack than you usually eat, or switching out your usual mug/plate/utensil.

You missed the point.

Have a great day.

Using a different search engine is easy. Voting for a good politician is also easy. But getting other people to switch to a different search engine is hard, just like getting other people to vote.

Ok another note, your karma is very close to 2381. Make sure you get a screenshot :)

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