Based on the community's feedback, we’ve added a setting to always hide AI-generated images by default.

You can enable it on Settings > Search > AI

What you need to know about phone searches at US airports and border crossings >>>

#immigration
#technology
#phone
#search
#border
#airport
#USA

https://youtube.com/shorts/0BcsaR6cRFs

"Data broker brags about having highly detailed personal information on nearly all internet users. The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque."

All Kagi products are 100% ad-free and with zero trackers of any kind. Our privacy is our dignity. It should never be for sale.

https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762

This is beyond…

#LeMonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #US after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #Trump's #science cuts, "which [says #CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.

#law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #ViewpointDiscrimination
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/

#AI #search engines cite #incorrect #sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services #misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
Benj Edwards

..."A new study from Columbia Journalism Review's Tow Center for Digital Journalism finds serious accuracy issues with generative AI models used for news searches. The research tested eight AI-driven search tools equipped with live search functionality a"...

Everyone pays for search. The difference is whether you're paying with your attention, time, and private data - or with your wallet.

Yesterday I paid for a year subscription of Kagi (@kagihq). I had been testing it for a few days and it reminds me of the olden days of Google.

Clean UI that gives me results at the top of the page.

Google has gone overboard with the ads and sponsored results cluttering the interface. Not to mention the AI overview at the top of each search.

Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time

https://futurism.com/study-ai-search-wrong

These things are really good at being wrong.

LOL. I did a #Google #Search and that #AI Overview crap at the top, all its sources were from Quora. God help us all.

Quora is informative, but not trustworthy. It's not trustworthy because there is no fact checking the answers and no credential checking on those answering the questions. Answers can also reflect personal opinions and biases, which may not always align with objective facts or widely accepted knowledge.

#AI #search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/ yes, they really are getting worse...

Kagi's Android app has Privacy Pass support.

You can add the Privacy Pass shortcut by holding the Kagi Android icon

Learn more about Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search here: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass

Is AI search a bullshit generator?

Yes.

Confidently incorrect, and rudely ignores robots.txt, too! What more do you want from a search engine?

#ai #search #bullshit

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php

We are committed to surfacing content from the Small Web in our search results, which makes Kagi uniquely different to any other search engine out there.

It is not only part of our mission to humanize the web but we genuinely feel that this improves the quality of search results and discoverability of high quality, relevant content (created by humans!)

Looks like Google is overcompensating now for https://grumpy.website/1543. A popup saying Seach to the field that already says Search

Thanks @arsenii_that_b for the picture

Bring Kagi to work for your team

https://kagi.com/teams

#Mojeek #Search. Tried a couple of years back and struggled. They deliberately use a basic keyword search rather than second-guessing the user with semantic search. In theory I should like that, but couldn't get on with it. Last year they put in some *basic* semantics - typo correction, etc - and it feels much more usable. Trying it as a daily driver and probably falling back to another search engine 30% of the time (for slightly niche work stuff). https://www.mojeek.com
#Privacy #uk

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