Having done plenty of text to speech testing of my own website, I've never thought to turn it onto a Google search results page. It's abysmal.
Of course Google is an accessibility nightmare.
I found this site hard to read. I’m reading on my phone btw.
The text is too big for me and the line height (space between lines really) isn’t right, it’s too spaced out. Can I read it? Absolutely, I just can’t read it as fast as I normally would. It’s like when my mom hands me her phone and the text is so large I can barely operate it for a while, then I eventually get used to it to a certain extent.
What’s funny is this itself is an accessibility issue in the opposite direction of most accessibility issues. Just goes to show users should really be able to have their own text preferences reflected on the web.
I am not paid to design kagi architecture nor I know the internals, but let’s say I can host that mentioned anonymizer myself (say in Canary Islands), and it pulls the queries from kagi who you have paid for by monero, then the company knows nothing about the user, no profiling, no tracking, nothing, that’s a great starting point.
If this doesn’t exist, using something like searxng is far better (privacy wise), not just as mentioned on how it’s more anonymous, but also it gives you the ability to blend in, rather than looking like a sore thumb in the logs.
https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass
https://github.com/kagisearch/privacypass-extension
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040521
Yes and yes, since you you apparently aren't capable of reading for yourself
-edit- I decided I didn't like the tenor of the comments I made. This tone serves nothing but to degrade the quality of online discourse so I will say this:
I don't personally have the technical chops to verify the claims that Kagi is making. And no one should blindly trust the statements of faceless companies. For me personally, the claims, discussion in the linked hacker news post, and the direction of Kagi's economic incentives are enough to satisfy me personally. Nothing says that someone else must be satisfied by that level of evidence, which is definitely not proof positive. However, I also very strongly believe that the level of paranoia that it takes to decide that all of that is not enough would also 100% disbar one from using google, even without an account. I do not think that one can honestly say that, with the evidence we have on hand, that Kagi is less privacy protecting that google. They may not be privacy protecting enough, whatever standard that is for someone, but they are absolutely doing more than google.
No privacy-related concerns were raised back then.
It is a german blog (sorry, couldn’t find an EN-version), and a very trustworthy source for me.
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/besser-als-google-bezahlsuchmasch...
And it is not like you marry kagi and once you sign up you can never use another search engine again.
You can pay anonymously[1]. You can also authenticate anonymously, as someone else already mentioned.
Meanwhile Google retains everything forever and does everything in their power to track everything you do across the web and tie it back to you, logged in or not. This is their entire business model.
If you want to hear from a happy Kagi user, I can say that I used Google thrice in the last two years, and it didn’t bring better results than Kagi.
Nearly ironically, because the site is already created for low vision, it had issues with the things that I do. Dark Reader froze up (uncommon) and the font was, for the first time, too large.
I am glad to see someone else enjoying Kagi.
Legally blind here too o7
tbf, those are common in every Kagi or Search Engine in general article on HN ;)
- A happy user since the beta days before you even had to pay.
The AI results were bad beyond all human understanding - the sort of product that I thought only a walking corpse like Microsoft could release so broadly. But, that is essentially what Google Search is now. Clearly no one in a position of responsibility knows or cares about product design or performance and it only continues to exist through sheer inertia.
Switching to Kagi is how it felt when I first used broadband internet in college , or when I switched from Alta Vista to Google: the internet works like it should.
Clearly inferior to Google though.
> Name: Kagi
> Shortcut: k
> URL: `https://kagi.com/search?q=%s`
looks like one can do this and use search without needing to be logged in. pleasantly surprised to see this. i wonder how they would rate limit users this way.