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I search a lot less than I thought (self.chat)
submitted 1 month ago by shortwavesurfer to c/[email protected]
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I am a Kagi user and have been for 7 months now. I signed up for the 300 searches per month plan because I felt like that would fit me well enough and it turns out I average 87 searches per month. That's a lot lower than I thought it would be by quite a bit.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Do you find that your searches are higher quality than something like, say, DuckDuckGo?

[–] shortwavesurfer 8 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Yeah, I'd say they're pretty comparable. And you can add filters, so like for example, I have all of Reddit blocked out from searches.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

That reddit filter will have less than an effect than it used to. Reddit blocked all crawlers except google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Brave search works for Reddit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

reddit recently updated their robots.txt to disallow all crawlers Google paid a bunch of money to have access to crawl reddit

You'll still see old stuff, but crawlers that care about robots.txt will get no new information.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The best part of that robots.txt is:

Reddit believes in an open internet, but not the misuse of public content.

Sure Jan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Reddit believes in ~~an open~~ pay to access internet, but not the ~~mis~~use of ~~public content~~ our content we didn't make.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A few possibilities,

  1. brave has state in the past they use the googlebot user agent, if all reddit does is check the useragnet, it won't block brave. This does however mean brave is violating the robots.txt file.
  2. I saw some mentions of google fall back, I don't know if they still do it, but that could be another possibility.
  3. Brave ignores robots.txt files
  4. Brave paid for access

No matter the reason, well behaving crawlers will no longer crawl reddit, Everything is disallowed in the robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
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