Why don't we have personalized search engines?
1015 sats \ 14 comments \ @BdKozlovski 24 Aug tech
  • Search as it is today sucks
  • Google is an ad-engine, not a search engine
  • SEO is gamed all the time
The end result is a search result that isn't that valuable.
Why isn't there a tool that allows me to:
  • search good content I've read
  • search curated (from other people I trust) content
  • search books and other paid material I have bought
  • search my notes (that are scattered throughout 5 apps)
All in one?
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200 sats \ 0 replies \ @aoeu 25 Aug
I want to third Kagi. I switched to Kagi solely over a year ago and have not looked back. The search is so much better than Google or Bing. Another bonus is that you can pay via Lightning through their OpenNode integration.
As far as customization goes, I can have it give me only links directly to PDFs, only search certain academic journals that I select, only search Reddit, etc, etc. It prioritizes sites that have less advertising or tracking in the results too.
The creator of Kagi has a project called TinyGem that is a repository for links and content discovery. Might help you organize some of your thoughts too.
Obsidian is another tool that requires some work on your part, but then would be a tool to search through everything you've mentioned. You can even hook up open source LLMs running locally to help you sort through your Obsidian database.
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160 sats \ 1 reply \ @MaxAWebster 24 Aug
  • +1 for trying Kagi. Here's their manifesto. And their AMA on SN #502409 TL;DR You actually pay for the service you want
  • Here's an essay I wrote a few years ago exploring related questions.
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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @BdKozlovski OP 28 Aug
I have received so many recommendations for Kagi - I gotta check it out. I'm happy it exists.
One note worth pondering about in the future - it's almost as if the web will (finally?) turn into this bifurcated thing where one class of people (those with money) can afford better, faster information versus the other class.
Nothing inherently wrong with that - it's how the world works in almost all other ways. But it's an interesting note because so far the web was mostly pure democratization - everyone had the same experience on Google, etc.
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385 sats \ 1 reply \ @pillar 24 Aug
You might want to checkout Kagi.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BdKozlovski OP 26 Oct
thanks, I use it! still doesn't move the needle a lot.
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442 sats \ 1 reply \ @SwearyDoctor 24 Aug
because anything being "for you" is an advertising slogan and nothing is ever "for you", it's for the people that make it, control it, and profit from it. If you want something for you, you have to make it yourself.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BdKozlovski OP 26 Oct
This is precisely what I believe too. Thank you for saying it
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121 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 24 Aug
It's sort of intractable, if we're talking about something like Google search. If we assume Google's algorithm is slow, personalizing for everyone one earth will make it 8 billion times slower. If it takes 5 minutes to run, personalizing it, for one run, will take 76,000 years.
I'm sure it's not that slow, and can be adapted to not redo a bunch of identical work for every person, but the point is that certain algorithms scale poorly.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 24 Aug
We do have Like duck gogo and Bing
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sangekrypto 24 Aug
try to search slowly, because the machine now holds a lot of weight.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 24 Aug
Because you are not paying for a service.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 24 Aug
Because this isn’t really demanded by the majority of the people. Most of us don’t really care about accuracy and fairness, as long as we get our search results from Google
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @03d99caedc 24 Aug
Greed.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Octopus 24 Aug outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.