Systems Engineer and Configuration
Management Analyst.
Postgrad degree is in computer science/cybersecurity, but my undergraduate is in archaeology. Someday, maybe, I’ll merge the two fields professionally!
I love true science fiction, as well as all things aviation, outer space, and NASA-related.
Lastly, Calvin and Hobbes is the best comic strip of all time!
Glad to be here trying out kbin and the fediverse.
Hmm I just checked, they’re all live and their status page for each link has no outages. I would check any content blockers etc. that you have, I suspect it’s a problem on your end. They do use different domains for their blog, feedback, and help KB etc.
Kagi does exactly what you’re describing. It’s what I’ve been using.
Right there with ya! GameCube has always been my favorite. It also has the best iterations of Kart and Smash imo. I’ve recently been acquiring more GBA games to play on the adapter which is a fun time.
A tip for anyone who has the DOL-001 version with the digital output: you can easily get and adapter to HDMI, and there’s a company that now makes a USB-drive sized signal processor that does some upscaling and anti-aliasing. I’m now able to play on my 4k TV with a 1080p signal. Anyone feel free to DM me for the details!
I’m not saying a big old CRT isn’t still the best experience, but this lets me play on my main TV which is great for party games.
I use Kagi too, it’s surprisingly snappy! Like seriously impressive for a small org. They talk about speed optimisation being critical for them as well. I find the result to be excellent as well. A true Google replacement/feels like Google in its prime.
I believe they have their own index and bot as well?
They do have their own crawler and I believe supplement from bing only when necessary. Something like 98% of results are from their own index across all users. They actually have a breakdown for every search.
I think they actually have the largest independent index outside of Google/Bing right now.
Others that exclusively use their own index are:
Mojeek (results aren’t great)
Kagi (result are pretty good imo)
Currently using Orion on iOS. It’s made by the same people behind the Kagi search engine (which I also use now).
It’s still in alpha, so I occasionally encounter a bug, but the fact that it has built-in advert and tracking protection, as well as cool tab-suspend features sold me.
It tends to be on a newer version of WebKit then then Safari as well.
Oh, and did I mention it can use both Chrome and Firefox extensions?
I think Google peaked about 6-8 years ago now and then started slipping at an ever accelerating rate.
It’s almost useless for me when searching anything remotely technical or otherwise niche.
I almost consistently need to go to the second page of results now, something I don’t remember doing since like 2009.
I find Bing acceptable. Brave search works well. But I’m actually using Kagi now since I’m hoping their paid model will actually mean I’m not the product.
Weird, they do, but they redirect for me and the final URL is different than what you pasted.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html
My best guess is that a DNS record is messed up on their end, and since I’ve been to those pages before relatively recently, the cname or A-record is still cached for me.