Hi, do you have a minute? I would like to talk about https://kagi.com as the solution to all your problems.

Google will always try to squeeze more and more ads into your life, just like Microsoft and all the other big tech shitfarms.

While Kagi uses some Google search results, they are avoiding most of the SEO crap you get in Google while also giving you the option to completely remove or prioritize whatever sites you want in the search results.

It really makes the web feel very fresh again because you discover sites you never see on Google or Bing.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Yep, the circle of the internet:

    10 Create new awesome service
    20 Get a lot of users
    30 Build a great community
    40 Start running ads to offset costs
    50 Get VC funding
    60 Add new features that enable increased monetizations 70 Make old core feature more annoying to use.
    80 Push users to new features
    90 Kill important old core feature
    100 Push old users out
    110 Increase monetization of the service
    120 See user numbers dwindle
    130 See new competitors start
    140 Count of existing userbase to keep service alive
    150 Slowly move into obscurity 160 Become a joke brand that is forever tarnished.
    170 Never really die
    180 goto 10