If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?

Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by elevaet on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:16PM (#30728852)

I've been starting to use kagi for search. I'm still using google by default, but when I get a screen full of ads and clickbait articles I turn to kagi and it's almost always better.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by gillytech on Friday March 18, 2022 @10:39PM (#30730397)

Maybe you should try an opposite approach. When kagi gives you useless results switch to Google.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by Gareth321 on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:11PM (#30743873)

This is what I do. Kagi gets there 95% of the time. Plus I get to down/up rank results. Plus no ads. Plus I feel confident I’m getting the best result for me and not for advertisers. Truth be told I’ve been using “site:reddit.com” for years now already.

Google still has the lead with the answer box and older results. They’ve been collecting data for longer and I suspect their indexing heuristics are incredible.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by kuhewa on Saturday March 19, 2022 @04:46AM (#30732222)

I wanted to love kagi, but they still have the same fuzzy search that makes it about impossible to find something odd that shares keywords with commonplace things.

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