"Tank man" has become something of a litmus test for shitty technology.
    • SoftestVoid@beehaw.org
      4·
      1 year ago

      New Kagi user here too, been very happy so far. Though it turns out I do a lot of searching and blew through the 300 searches in the $5 plan in like 2 weeks…

      • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        I just signed up with them, too. They were able to get me a link to the age of a small, nondescript lava flow near my town on the third hit. (5000 years old! A youngster!) All the other search engines gave me unrelated crap.

        I have a hard stop set up for when I hit $10, so I’ll switch tiers if it comes to that. 😅

        I don’t necessarily like paying for search, but I couldn’t take ad-driven search any longer. Big waste of time getting through the chaff.

      • Byter
        1·
        1 year ago

        Make an effort to use bangs and I bet you’ll stay under the limit. Edit: bang searches don’t count towards the limit

        Knowing I wanted a result from a certain site but using the search engine to get there was a (bad) habit I brought over from Google.

        !imdb barbie

        !w mattel

        There’s even custom bangs, which is something DDG doesn’t give you: !libgen some book

          • Byter
            1·
            1 year ago

            But they don’t allow bangs for sites that do illegal things like copyright infringement. Libgen was my example.

              • Byter
                1·
                1 year ago

                Custom bangs are private to the user. It’s not dissimilar to saving a bookmark in your browser, except your bookmarks are hosted by someone else.

                It doesn’t have to be about legality either. Maybe you like a service that is being protested by DDG for whatever reason.