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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by al_borland on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:08PM (#47186369)
I had a similar experience with DDG. I felt like I had to add “!g” to everything, which doesn’t actually move one away from Google, it just creates friction.

Kagi, however, has been a different experience for me. I haven’t felt the need to go to Google at all. If I can’t find it with Kagi, I’m confident I won’t find it with Google either. There have also been several times where I was on an outage call with a double dozen people all looking for answers to some issue. Everyone was coming up empty with Google, and I was able to find something that solved the issue pretty quickly with Kagi.

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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by jerbearito on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:54PM (#47187008)
+1 for Kagi. It's been my daily driver for 2.5 years and I have no complaints.
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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by Spinfusor on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:59PM (#47188518)
I had a mostly bad experience with Kagi, but I have to say I miss the account-level domain blocking.
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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by mbesto on Friday February 27, 2026 @08:01PM (#47188534)
Kagi + Perplexity have all but eliminated the need for Google search for me
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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by iFreilicht on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:40AM (#47207694)
Anything particular about perplexity that helps you replace web search, or do you mean any LLM-Chat with access to web sources would suffice?
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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by dannyfritz07 on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:17PM (#47188075)
Isn't that because Kagi is just filtered Google results?
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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by al_borland on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:23PM (#47188153)
That’s what startpage does. Kagi has a lot of sources.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by qmarchi on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:24PM (#47188155)
Kagi _does_ use Google results, but they also have their own index, as well as search filters to curate _your_ search result. Makes it easier to cut out the garbage.
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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by TexanFeller on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:22PM (#47188147)
I’ve also been using Kagi for the past ~2 years. At first I would always also search Google to see if I was missing out on better results, but after a couple of months I no longer bothered because Kagi did better 99% of the time. It’s worth the cost, I’d keep it over Netflix if I had to choose.

TLDR Kagi is what Google would have been if they had kept improving instead of transitioning to enshitifying ~10yrs ago.

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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by drcongo on Saturday February 28, 2026 @08:50AM (#47195375)
It only took me a couple of weeks to go from "I can't ever imagine paying for search" to "I will never use free search again". Kagi is the best bang for buck of any subscription I pay for.
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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by LinuxGamer on Saturday February 28, 2026 @03:24PM (#47199842)
Yep, I came to this thread looking for excuses to switch to a different free non-Google search but everywhere you go there are Kagi recommendations. I've been loving it for the past year.
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