hedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 months agoBing outage shows just how little competition Google search really hasarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkBing outage shows just how little competition Google search really hasarstechnica.comhedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarehedge@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoSeems like most search engines these days are primarily Google-based or Bing-based. Mojeek has its own crawler, I think…
minus-squaredoxxx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoKagi.com has its own I believe. But you have to pay a subscription to use it.
minus-squareMindless_Enigma@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoMy understanding is that Kagi relies on the likes of Bing and Google but since it uses more than one of them it can keep functioning if one goes down.
minus-squaredoxxx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoTIL. I thought they had their own crawler. I’m a little disappointed.
minus-squaredarreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThey do both, their own index focuses on the “small web”, more info here: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
minus-squareMojeek@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThis is correct, we are independent and have been since all the way back in 2004, 8bn-page index and growing 😀
minus-squareDanterious@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 month agoI just read your profile and can’t believe you guys have been on lemmy for 3 years. What made you guys join before lemmy got popular? Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Seems like most search engines these days are primarily Google-based or Bing-based. Mojeek has its own crawler, I think…
Kagi.com has its own I believe. But you have to pay a subscription to use it.
My understanding is that Kagi relies on the likes of Bing and Google but since it uses more than one of them it can keep functioning if one goes down.
TIL. I thought they had their own crawler. I’m a little disappointed.
They do both, their own index focuses on the “small web”, more info here:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
This is correct, we are independent and have been since all the way back in 2004, 8bn-page index and growing 😀
I just read your profile and can’t believe you guys have been on lemmy for 3 years. What made you guys join before lemmy got popular?
Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)