I believe this is a pretty new feature within Kagi Search. You can click on the yellow/orange shield with the exclamation mark in it and you get the popup that you see here.
This popup tells you just how many ads and trackers that specific site uses as well as what category of ads and trackers it uses.
This is one of the neatest things I've seen Kagi Search add so far.
I've been playing with #KagiSearch today and I've gone from skeptical to in love. I've never felt so much at the center with any search service before. I guess that's what a service where the user is the customer, not the product looks like.
I'm really considering paying €10/m... for a search service!
We need to have the conversation that technologists aren't having: how do we make search on the web not be terrible? It's good that Google's monopoly is being investigated, but we need to think about more durable solutions.
@robin interesting article, thanks for sharing. Painfully aware that choosing a search engine would likely be as welcomed by users as choosing a Mastodon instance...
I'm trying #kagiSearch of late. It's a paid subscription for a privacy friendly search without ads. It fetches from numerous search engine sources.
Post-#neeva update: I have the feeling that the search results at #Kagi are slowly getting better. What I am missing at the moment? It would be great if you didn't have to choose either Germany OR International for "Region", but could select several individually weighted regions.
I have to say, in my brief period experimenting with #KagiSearch / #Kagi as an alternative to Google, it's held up much better than I'd expected.
In this instance, although NONE of these search engines have actually found what I'm looking for, I muuuch prefer what Kagi returns than what Google or Bing return. I was trying to download the installer image for #TrueNAS SCALE but the download via the browser kept failing even in when using a download manager so I figured it was torrent time.
Tried a few searches, "TrueNas Scale Torrent," then "TrueNas Scale ISO Magnet Link" which brought up results from LinuxTracker, but not the current version which I had seen when I was on the download page earlier. Time to be a little more specific:
"TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.3.2.iso magnet"
When you get this specific:
Google kinda gives up, the top link might have what you're looking for, but it doesn't give you any page content in the blurb. You'll have to open the link to find out. That's all it gives you.
Bing actually does a good job at highlighting the version number located within pages and forums. Dare I say it, better than Google's results here.
Kagi gives you a link straight to the download repository with 'Today' clearly marked and although Bing's highlighting of forums posts is useful, Kagi is technically being more relevant to my query by showing LinuxTracker and DistroWatch directly afterward.
You could argue that Google's results make it clear that what you're searching for doesn't exist, but it's also just as easy to assume that Google didn't like my specific wording and that I just need to keep searching. But in the case of Kagi, the results give me a better picture of what's going on.
Since it couldn't find results for the whole query, I get:
An immediate understanding that what I'm looking for has just been released.
Results for the version/file I'm looking for but in the wrong format.
Results that match the general query but for an older version.
Again, all dated. It's clear that 'Today' was when the version I was searching for was published, then the torrent links are from April.
tl;dr The layout of Kagi's personally gives me a better gauge of why I'm not finding desired results.