I switched to DuckDuckGo about seven years ago, added Marginalia when it became available, and then moved over to Kagi three years back. I made the change because I was utterly fed up with Google trying to be cleverer than me.

Looking back, I’m increasingly glad I became an early adopter - Kagi has proven to be as much of an improvement over Google as Google once was over its older rivals.

My thoughts exactly. LLMs are tools, and you should be able to draw your tools out of your toolcase whenever you need them. Kagi has a good implementation where AI doesn't obscure your search results, but it's one click away if you need it. If only Kagi had more reasonable pricing.

Yes, and besides having TypingMind utilizing accounts of OpenRouter, Anthropic, DeepSeek and more, I like Kagi's Assistant for many things. Only the models included in the professional plan, but Kimi, Gemini Flash and Deepseek are good enough for me in this respect.