cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14100831

"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn’t find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

  • Wappen@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    What kagi can’t fix is that most forums nowadays don’t exist anymore and moved over to discord which is also a big reason for worse search results.

    For example I had a technical problem with a device of mine, searched for maybe half an hour on Google until I joined a related Discord. Searching there in the support channel and I found the fix for my problem. Would Discord not exist and all the content be queryable by Google I would have found my answer within seconds.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t understand this trend and i hate that it’s a thing. I also hate Discord.i shouldn’t have to go to a fucking chat room when a forum works better.

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        9 months ago

        Exactly. I would be less mad if it was Matrix, but Matrix search is really slow and not likely to get better.

        Forums make a ton of sense.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, Matrix is way better, but the search there is way too slow on busy channels.

        Just post stuff on the open Internet…

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          9 months ago

          I guess my point was that locking all that knowledge and troubleshooting behind chat interfaces, and obscuring it from search engines makes the internet worse

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            9 months ago

            Agreed. But if it’s at least FOSS, it should be fairly easy to get the data out for searching.

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      9 months ago

      I really want to see more from the commune-os to make matrix communities more publically accessible or even selectivily. The AP bridge especially