[drakonka]

For me, it is mostly the feature of getting the results I expect when I input a search term. Over the years I've been conditioned to Google, and have learned to intuitively formulate search terms in a way that gets me what I want almost immediately when I use Google. When I tried switching to DuckDuckGo, suddenly the way I formulate my queries no longer resulted in the results I expected. This resulted in my falling back on `!g` over 50% of the time.

I've recently started trying out the Kagi beta and it is the first time I'm not `!g`-ing constantly. It seems to give me what I want with the queries I expect. At first I was a bit worried that it might not find my perfect balance of news-vs-older-content, but I was pleasantly surprised. Searches seem to result in a nice ranking of current events vs other information. It also brings back the "Discussion" search feature that Google used to have in a good way.

If the result quality continues to live up to my expectations I can see myself paying for the service down the line, but will see how it goes over time; as well as how the privacy stance of the devs progresses in regards to both privacy and data ownership of subscribing users _and_ of the subjects of queries (in relation to RTBF requests and such).