Why not both? You mention Kagi, and I find its Assistant to be a very useful mix of LLM and search engine. Something I asked it recently is whether Gothenburg has any sky-bars that overlook Hisingen to the North, and it correctly gave me one. A search engine could have given me a list of all sky-bars. And by looking at their photos on Google maps, I could probably have found one with the view / perspective I wanted. But Kagi Assistant using Kimi K2 did a decent job of narrowing the options I had to research.