I evaluated Kagi a couple of months ago, but its results were swamped with AI slop, too. These days, it's mostly DuckDuckGo for me.

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fransje26 3 hours ago | parent [-]

DuckDuckGo has also been my goto for years, but it is also getting swamped with SEO-rigged spam sites.

2 days ago I was making multiple searches looking for the websites of specific hotels and spa facilities, and none of them showed up in the first 4 pages of results, even when searching by exact name.

Out of desperation I switched back to Google, and, surprisingly, it was willing to give me what I was looking for on the first page. (But not as first result, of course..)

	▲	lelele 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> DuckDuckGo has also been my goto for years, but it is also getting swamped with SEO-rigged spam sites. True, but DDG seems, at the very least, no more afflicted than other engines. If I'm supposed to pay for a search engine, I expect something better than DDG.