I’ve been using Kagi for a while now. It’s worth a shot. I’ve been very happy with the quality of the results and I never find myself feeling like I should check google too.

Please do try it, it’s great. I’m just a happy user, no affiliation.

My favourite feature is the customised down ranking I can do. No Pinterest etc for me.

To me Kagi is as much a life changer on the web as ad-blockers are: Whenever I use a computer without them, I realize how poor the user experience is and how much time and energy is wasted just to filter noise from ads and poor content.

it seriously is. I have grown to resent advertising and mistrust sites that depend on advertising since "What is the ulterior motive here?" is a question that I have to ask myself.

Zero ads. User centric features being rolled out. Kagi has improved more in the last 6 months than google did in 10 years that I used the product.

Search definitely sucks, but I don't know if it sucks enough for $10/mo. I'll try Kagi and see, though.

Happy Kagi user here.

Try it! After you'll be on a site that is just generated content, click backwards in the browser and remove the site from all your future kagi results. That's how search should work (and it should _not_ provide you a top 30 of random AI content).

That just convinced me to sign up

The fact that people who are not affiliated with the company go out of their way to suggest people to use kagi and pay with their hard earned money is a testament to how much people enjoy and value the product.

Personally, if I could own Kagi stock, I would.

Also, I'd love to work for Kagi.

wink wink, nudge nudge.

> Personally, if I could own Kagi stock, I would.

Google stock would be worthless without its ad empire. Without ads, they would have no need to acquire Youtube and Android.

$10/mo also would not be enough for Wall St. Ask Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, anybody really. Ads will always be just around the corner.

Yeah. I chime in all the time to recommend it. It's a great product that I use many times every day, and I don't want to see it go away.

> Personally, if I could own Kagi stock, I would.

I hope it never becomes possible to own Kagi stock. They seem like a great company, I'd hate to see them become worthless chasing eternal growth because shareholders demand it.

They're already worthless then, because they took a round of investor money last year.

> the presence of ads and tracking on a webpage is correlated really well with me never wanting to read its content

It's not just you.

If there are ads on a page, it means the advertisers own the author. He is not free to write what he wants, he is free to write only that which the almighty advertisers will tolerate being associated with. He will not write things which bite the hands that feed him.

I'm convinced writers like that will never write anything truly genuine. Chances are if you see ads anywhere you're reading self-serving generic clickbait content meant to attract attention and drive up ad impressions. It's not real, it's just "content", a generic square around which ads congregate like parasites.