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0 pointsclaytongulick2y ago0 comments

My biggest question - and the one that will drive me to subscribe right now is how "harmful" "misinformation" and "malinformation" is treated today, and how it will be in the future.

I Do Not Want anything or anyone deciding what is good for me, what I should be seeing, or making it difficult for me to find things I'm searching for, regardless of the content.

A search engine should be like the phone company - providing a pipe to content and allowing me to decide what I want to see / block.

If I want to search for Nazi propaganda because I want to understand why people believe the things they do - I don't want the safety rails. I want the most raw, worst of it. I'm an adult with critical thinking skills, I don't need to be directed to the "safe" content.

Or covid vaccines.

Or anything.

If kagi has guarantees around this, your paying user base will be +1 tonight.

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NotSuspicious2y ago

Yandex is pretty great for that. It's trash. Everything it spits out is trash. But sometimes you're looking for trash. If you're looking for some old offensive meme or whatever you can pretty easily find it in Yandex Image Search, for example.

jsndidneske2y ago

Actually Yandex is much like google with blacklisting i have found.

nvm0n22y ago

I'm also curious about this, but if the claim that it's mostly a proxy for Google with some way to rerank results is true, then it wouldn't solve that problem.

carlosjobim2y ago

Try a search for Alex Jones on Kagi, I think that's a pretty good benchmark.

lostlogin2y ago

Surely results will always be weighted? How should it decide what to show you?

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