By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026It's not like Google doesn't have the ability to sort the good from the bad. Kagi.com is a $10/month paid search engine whose results are *vastly* superior to Google's. 34/ 1692
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026But Kagi doesn't have its own search index: instead, they rent access to Google's index, but apply their own (much smaller and less resourced) team's algorithm to rank the results for your queries. 35/ 2602
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026 In other words, Google *could* deliver good search results, they just choose not to: pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/t... 36/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1928
Alyssa the Kate @alyssa.codes · 30/06/2026That's not quite right: Kagi uses the Google index but they also use Brave, Mojeek, and Yandex, as well as their own private index. 100
