The boss man got a few of us Kagi gift-subscriptions/credits earlier this year, after we've been taking about wanting to try it. Before that I used Ecosia, which I also considered pretty good, but Kagi and everything else it just night and day.

I've been pretty sceptical about Kagi, feeling that it was a bit to expensive and perhaps just relying on other companies indexes to much and I spend to much time looking at how many searches I had left. After getting the subscription I just don't want to go back, the price is perfectly reasonable for the value. Being able to just search again and not sort through junk and spam and ads and just getting the pages I want and need is amazing.

Honestly it's a slightly weird feeling to look a the results from Kagi and notice it found exactly what you where looking for.

Once my gifted credits run out, that is going to be an easy renewal for me. I do not want to go back, even if I think Ecosia is a good option.

It's amazing how clear the manipulation and enshittification of Google's results are when you search the same thing with Kagi or even just another random search engine. Ecosia seems cool too, will keep an eye on it in case anything happens with Kagi.