>Maybe if Google hears this they will finally lift a finger towards removing garbage from search results.

Unlikely. There are very few people willing to pay for Kagi. The HN audience is not at all representative of the overall population.

Google can have really miserable search results and people will still use it. It's not enough to be as good as google, you have to be 30% better than google and still free in order to convert users.

I use Kagi and it's one of the few services I am OK with a reoccurring charge from because I trust the brand for whatever reason. Until they find a way to make it free, though, it can't replace google.