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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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Get a new Google. Search engines are the gateway to the internet. It would be nice if the door wasn't a wall of ads.
I've been experimenting with Kagi recently. At first I thought it was good but then I was searching for a model number for some niche Honda motor and Kagi wasn't any help. Neither was Duckduckgo
Google found it for me, though.
Having said that, I recently switched to Duckduckgo as my main search engine although I'm open to suggestions.
I agree that we need to get off of Google just because like you said - they are the gatekeepers. I don't trust a large company with that, much less Google
You should try searx, it is a meta search engine that checks some search engines (like google or DDG) and offers you the best results.
Check out the ones near you and save that page should the one you use go down.
I still use google too. The options out there aren't great right now.
I’ve been playing around with kagi and am actually super impressed with the search results for finding info about a product to purchase. Google results were full of your-search-term-best-reviews.com SEO crap but kagi found info that didn’t pop up even several pages into google search. So it might be how popular/commercial the search term is and google is still better at finding obscure niche things.
Ya I really like how they remove all the "listicles" top 10 BS list pages that are all just SEO content farms
I think for general things Kagi is great. I looked up some stuff about WW2 and it brought up great articles. The AI summary thing is really cool, although I think they just use the ChatGPT api.
Ultimately I stopped using after my trial because if I'm going to pay for a search engine I want it to be at least on parity with the free options
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