Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere

Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by HideousKojima on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:29PM (#38042098)

I've seen a lot of people on here mention Kagi, a paid search engine that supposedly filters out results and makes search useful again etc. but no idea if anyone actually uses it and enjoys it or if they were just astroturfing shills.

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Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by mdavidn on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:38PM (#38042225)

I’ve been a happy subscriber to Kagi ever since Neeva shut down. Kagi is much faster and yields better results for the kinds of queries I make. The domain filtering really makes a big difference.

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Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by tombert on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:40PM (#38042252)

I've been using it almost exclusively since February of this year. It's pretty nice to be able to being able selectively bias searches yourself.

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Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by dartos on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:38PM (#38042221)

I like it. It’s a little behind google sometimes like with very breaking news, but for most of my day to day it’s a massive improvement.

The also display list articles separately from other sites, which is very refreshing

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Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by babypuncher on Friday October 27, 2023 @03:01PM (#38042526)

> It’s a little behind google sometimes like with very breaking news

I view this as a feature, as I find my mental health improves the less I am tuned in to current events that are not explicitly relevant to my job or hobbies.

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Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by bwb on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:37PM (#38042201)

Ive been using it for around 40 days to test. So far i like it, i do not notice much difference versus google in general. But i also got to bump quality sites in my niche up the listings (and reddit). So far i dig it

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Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by mog_dev on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:33PM (#38042161)

I've been a happy subscriber since the beginning. People have been talking about Kagi for a while. The devs have released a lot of figures on their blog blog.kagi.com and the feedback website is very active too. kagifeedback.org

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Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by rolisz on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:37PM (#38042207)

Happy paying user here. Managed to even convert some friends to it.

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Re:Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engin... by kickdaddy on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:44PM (#38042322)

Huge Kagi fan. Daily driver for last six months

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