I’ve gotten very into self-hosting (on device, not on a server) my own search engine, but searxng is unbearably clunky to make run on my Gentoo OpenRC machine. Two projects stuck out, 4get and omnisearch, but which of these do you think is the best and do you know other ones?
Pretty please?
Price is a big one. That aside I didn’t like the interface, I couldn’t consistently find the results I was looking for, and again price.
I’d maybe be willing to pay $5 a month for a good search engine. $10 a month even. But $10 a month knowing half my money is paying for bundled AI searches I never wanted nor asked for is a bridge to far. I’m not militantly anti-AI, but I don’t want to be forced to pay for it if I want Kagi to be even remotely useful (300 searches is a joke).
300 is low, i agree. but idk, if it’s a free product, then YOU are the product. is my data still being used in ways that profit a few and invade my privacy? probably, but less than google i hope.
I am on the anti-AI side of things, by nature of being human. and yeah, there’s some AI shit in kagi, as with seemingly all others. but it at least it’s opt-in (i think). i’ve never seen it shoved in my face, which i can’t say for example duckduckgo.
can’t tell u what price is best for you, or what UI u prefer. but trash? no. google is trash.