Incredibly easy to miss, damn.
douglasg14b
joined 1 year ago
Honestly?
Heat death of the universe.
Our biology is hardwired for tribalism.
Really, victim blaming?
Get out of here with that low quality crap.
The wrong lesson?
I'm not sure how reducing your attack surface area is the wrong lesson here.
Definitely distopian, corporate power and entrenchment grows every year.
Probably because of the "you can't be sexist against males" standpoint
Yeah, it's technical topics I care about, and have a hard time with in current search engines.
There is so much noise caused by celebrity news, current events, "hot topics", politics, "top 10" list spam, SEO gaming....etc that searches on Google, bing, and ddg are just frustrating.
This is literally "nuh uh" quality discussion. We get it, you like SearXNG, are you actually trying Kagi?
I just tried a few SearXNG instances and the quality is the same as what I get from Google or Bing anyways.
Trying out Kagi now to see if it's better or not.
They probably have a lot of potential infrastructure savings. $1/80 searches is an absolutely astronomical cost.
I'm imagining there are quite a few gains they can get by way of optimization, different technologies, and optimizing hot paths to bring that number down.
It really depends how they built this thing. For instance, if they built this on the AWS ecosystem, using more than straight compute/K8, their costs are going to be an actual order of magnitude higher than if they didn't.
That'd be weird if they couldn't, there's no way they can improve their search engine other than by watching the way users use it.
Otherwise it exists in a vacuum.
browsers themselves are easy to make
That's ... a patently false statement.
They are among the most complex, difficult, resource hungry pieces of software out there along with actual operating systems.
There's a lot of open source browsers out there. Are you using them? Probably not
This is also essentially misinformation. I'm sure none of us have heard of Firefox before, or Chromium. Sure Chrome (closed source) is what most people use, but Firefox isn't exactly some esoteric browser.
So..... Throw them in jail? Make them accountable? Revoke the companies ability to do business till the records are provided?
Then again, that's just fantasy because the laws don't matter if you're Rick/big enough anymore.