This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Spoiler:"Is it good?
No."
I use Kagi but do agree with the three listed complaints about it. Overall happy with it, but would consider something like uruky if it was a high quality search. I welcome the competition and there's plenty more room since the big boys keep getting worse.
My workplace actually blocks the uruky site.
I accidentally went to Google for the first time in months and was wtf'ing over how many results are sponsored.
The complaints about Kagi are valid, mostly, (there's always that one guy that runs around complaining that Kagi uses Yandex). But damn I've gotten spoiled by the results and the ranking customization...
yandex and brave*
I am one of the people previously complaining about it. I decided to rethink it and changed my mind. It is not a big enough deal to avoid the service. I tried it for a couple of months, and was satisfied with the results.
I really liked filtering results and boosting them.
In the end I deciding it was not good enough to justify the price, so I ended up with Qwant as my daily driver going forward.
I tried searching for a random YouTuber, the fourth page was for images of their feet, 10/10 search engine
Would give lower score, as this should definetly be on the first page
You really can’t even test the damn thing without paying? Good luck, Uruky.
If you create an account it is "preloaded" with one day for free
I'll try it out for a month, see how the results "feel" compared to Kagi (I fully agree with the points against Kagi mentioned in the article, especially on the focus they seem completely lost recently). So long as I sort of find what I need I'll probably move over, if only because it's supporting a European business.
I like the initiative, but this is ridiculously bad. I searched for one of the biggest tech youtube channels:
Why not search for youtube channels on youtube instead?
If the purpose of finding content online is the purpose of a search engine, then it does not do a good enough job.
But why use this when Qwant is free
operating a search engine is expensive. ecosia finances their stuff with ads. qwant probably too? if uruky comes out big, being independently financed means they could participate in the qwant-ecosia index without risks.
Who's vetting these names? I mean what's next, a Morgul search engine? I don't want to be an Uruk-hai :(
No AI :(
So sad.
