The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

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    8 months ago

    I’m almost convinced that Kagi comments on Lemmy are spam. Please prove me wrong:

    Has anyone here tried Kagi because of a recommendation from here and, well, actually found it better than the rest?

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      8 months ago

      I didn’t get recommended it here, but elsewhere. I ended up paying for a years worth last year and yeah I like it better than pretty much everything else. There is still a rare occasion that I need to use Google, but that is maybe once a week whereas with DuckDuckGo it was multiple times per-day.

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      8 months ago

      I did lol, why the hell would I recommend it otherwise?

      It’s a search engine, so to be better than the others it’s obvious it would have to return better results than the usual ad-based crap — and it does. There is a free trial and you can check out if it’s worth it for you btw

      It has quite a lot of QoL features for searches, but their main one — searching — is worth the cost; if you do a search once in a blue moon or append “Reddit” at the end of a query, it’s not imo since any search engine is “good enough” for that. If you instead actually do a search without having a specific website in mind, it’s good. You can also filter out the quora and other shitty websites results, which is nice

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        8 months ago

        I did lol, why the hell would I recommend it otherwise?

        Not directly saying that you’re doing this, but c’mon, you know the answer. Why would anyone recommend a paid product?

        There is a free trial and you can check out if it’s worth it for you btw

        Nice! I didn’t know there was a trial. Good to know.

        You can also filter out the quora and other shitty websites results, which is nice

        Oh, now we’re talking!! That’s very cool.