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Just wait until cheap to write GPT3 articles learn SEO techniques inherently and bombard the internet suppressing human writers in the spam ocean. At https://aquila.network we’re always thinking of this scenario.


Is it open source?


Search engine backend specs are almost final & now open source (AquilaDB), we love to make more and more of it on the way. This is because we're still discovering a market-fit & final product shape - open source development need a finalized spec & consistency over time.


Just wait until cheap to write GPT3 articles learn SEO techniques inherently and bombard the internet suppressing human writers in the spam ocean. At https://aquila.network we’re always thinking of this scenario.


Quora annswers basically read like GPT-3 if it were trained exclusively on recipe websites.



Try this one: https://t.me/aquilanet_bot

BotMark: A Telegram bot for quick bookmarking & powerful search (works in groups as well)

For Individuals: When you find an interesting website/article on your mobile phone, press the share button and select "botmark"—nothing more, nothing less.

For Groups: Add "botmark" to a group and keep track of all the links in your group in one place—easy peasy.


This is good! I use Raindrop and IFTTT, and it works like magic. I can also use Telegram in Vivaldi Web Panel and use custom shortcuts keys (browser recipes) that automatically open up web panel after I select address to be shared. The process is intuitive and efficient.


I have a big friends group on Telegram approaching 33 people. How does BotMark improve on the Links tab that every Telegram group contains already?


If you need a good search engine, pay for it. Business needs to make money, it’s that simple.


Integrate Bitcoin into your business and all the arguments in the write up just unwind.


It's interesting to see that you have paid for Kagi. Do you regularly pay for any other services that are privacy-focused?


Anonymous payment is a good idea. Do you use any other service that supports anonymous payments?


In Germany there is a payment provider (viacash) that allows customers to pay in cash at selected retailers. You get a code, it gets scanned in the supermarket, you pay without any requirement for identification and get a confirmation. Big fan of that, but unfortunately only few websites are using it yet.


How would automatic recurring payments be handled with this?


They aren't. It is meant for prepaid models, which is kind of a feature for me.


Oh OK. Changing model to pay per use is something we thought of but most people told us they would feel anxiety to search and preferred a fixed monthly fee. We are continuing to have an open discussion about this in Discord, our site and here on HN so lets see if we figure it out.


Prepaid doens't have to mean pay-per-use. It can mean I load up 50€ to my account and you debit 10€ per month until the account balance is less than 10€.


posteo.de still has a fixed monthly fee with this model. They just limit the account if the credit is used up.


Ok so a way to top off account with a one time payment may be a good idea.


Some other pay-with-cash methods in other countries are paysafecash (like viacash), paysafecard (only anonymous if you meet strict KYC requirements), some gambling related one (whatever) and cash-by-mail.

Do note that all of them have significant fees and probably not that many users.


Thank you for considering it


agreed. I would start to be paranoid making searches at will if I knew they are paid one by one


Yes, VPN and e-mail.


Mullvad would be one of the prime examples here:

> Which payment methods do you accept?

> We accept cash, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, bank wire, credit card, PayPal, Swish, Giropay, Eps transfer, Bancontact, iDEAL, and Przelewy24. With credit card and PayPal, you have the option to set up a monthly recurring subscription.

> Can I really pay with cash?

> You bet, and please! Stay anonymous all the way. Just put your cash and payment token (randomly generated on our website) in an envelope and send it to us. We accept the following currencies: EUR, USD, GBP, SEK, DKK, NOK, CHF, CAD, AUD, NZD.

https://mullvad.net/en/pricing/


Posteo [1] also allows cash. But I'd say there that makes more sense than with Mullvad, because as a VPN provider they'll very likely know your IP address during operation, while for posteo you could at least access through tor (which doesn't make sense for Mullvad)

[1]: https://posteo.de/en/help/how-do-i-add-credit-to-my-account#...


Adding to the list I have been building for very long -- "Becoming irrelevant, Google Search" -- here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cSMY5wXSKhJdMxeJEvTUJ21e...


I might be dumb, but Why?


There's a section in my blog entry answering that question.

Short version: I want people to be able to use my software if they don't have the ability to spin up a Python web server.


Easy solution: start off by not writing your software in something as hobbled as Python.


Only serving static assets and letting users bring their own compute is world changing.


Great work.


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