Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners.
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Okay one more "search without the AI" option I've just learned about, and unlike Kagi/DDG this one's even from a no-AI company:
Similar to how Waterfox repackages Firefox without the genAI, this takes Google and repackages it without the genAI. It costs money, but the money supports Waterfox, so that's… good?
Also since this is Mastodon I should probably mention SearXNG and https://marginalia-search.com/ ( here as @marginalia ), both open source. Marginalia looks promising.
@mcc @marginalia
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My steps to configure Kagi as a genAI-free search engine:
In settings
- Disable General->"Keyboard Shortcuts"
- Click Appearance->"Custom CSS" and paste in the text from https://codeberg.org/zerodogg/kagi-no-ai/src/branch/main/kagi-no-ai.css
- Disable Search->AI->"Auto Quick Answer"What's nice about this is it's bound to your account, so it "works everywhere". You don't have to use a particular browser, you don't have to set up plugins on all your machines.
I've been using Kagi this way for about a year—results seem just as good as Google
@mcc wait why are you disabling keyboard shortcuts? (I don't have that option anyway so just curious)
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