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What search engine do you use? (and why?)
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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Kagi. Yes, it's paid and the pricing structure is really meh, but:
For some reason the thought of a paid search engine has never even crossed by mind before. I've been using DDG but this has peaked my curiosity. Thank you.
Edit: The pricing is... very... meh.
So you're basically paying for a proxy for Google and Bing search?
It is very meh. But I think if you're able to, it's well worth the price. Just don't get the standard plan. That one is god awful.
It's so worth it.
I didn't know it was privacy focused or that they were building their own index, that's really cool. Do you think it's worth the money?
It's only a few bucks a month. I think so.
The only thing I don't like is needing to be logged in to search. That always feels like a huge invasion of privacy. The at least claim that they don't log search contents though
Bit biased cause I've had it for a while and have a 'legacy plan'. But even without that, absolutely.
Love Kagi. I switched and never had any reason to use Google again. Its that good.
Kagi is absolutely wonderful. Highly recommend giving it ago. Gives me better results than google while having a fair privacy policy
I want to give it a try but it's hard to justify the cost with limited searches. I don't want to have to keep track of how many times I've searched or second guess if I "really need to search for that".
I was using DuckDuckGo and it was giving me pretty 'eh' results, only marginally better than google on the surface level, but both weren't really usable for deep older searches. (and ddg starting to add sus ads/promoted) Brave is better, but Kagi has been fantastic when I've really needed to find something specific, technical, or very old. I think the best way to come about the pricing structure and limited search results is that I think it's not supposed to be your only search engine from then on. There are times when you need what kagi gives in terms of producing quality and relevant results, and times you just wanna search "[company name] reviews/is a scam?" that using kagi wouldn't serve you better than anything else, so it's more of a tool that you bring out when you aren't finding what you need with free search engines. On it's own page it doesn't try and oversell you on it, they admit that the majority of people don't need paid search most of the time.
I haven't approached if it's an early netflix thing where you could split the bill with others for one login/family plan, that might make it more feasible.
Huh. I hadn't heard of this one before, but I think I'm going to have to try it out.
I've been using Kagi for a few months now and I love it. When I think about how much of my life revolves around accurate information, the price is negligible.