To preface, what I'm about to say is no hate towards Kagi and I've actually considered trying them.

Think about your last few searches. How many times did you: Scroll past several ads disguised as real results? Add “reddit” to your search just to get human opinions instead of SEO spam? Feel slightly weird searching for something personal, knowing it’s being tracked and stored? Get frustrated by results that felt absurdly off, like they were optimized for someone else’s agenda?

I have never felt this way. I use an adblocker as god intended, I append reddit when I feel like it's something reddit comments would answer well, if I'm searching something I don't want attached to me I use an incognito tab, and my results are never absurdly off (and in fact practically read my fucking mind by how well optimized the results are). I genuinely don't understand what people are searching to have this hard of a time with google search results.