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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jerbearito 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

+1 for Kagi. It's been my daily driver for 2.5 years and I have no complaints.

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dannyfritz07 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Isn't that because Kagi is just filtered Google results?

	▲	al_borland 7 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That’s what startpage does. Kagi has a lot of sources. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
	▲	qmarchi 7 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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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TexanFeller 8 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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.