[rntksi]

Here's a search engine that I'm subscribed to: https://kagi.com

In the 20-30 searches that I do in a day, I still have to google about half of them. Either because it's stuff Google does well (currency conversion, for example), or Kagi just doesn't get what I'm trying to search.

I remember starting out with the Internet searching on Altavista and Yahoo and Lycos. The information that was present was nowhere near as now, and it was more "exploratory". Nowadays people just kind of know what they want and just wants to quickly get there.

[freediver]

> In the 20-30 searches that I do in a day, I still have to google about half of them. Either because it's stuff Google does well (currency conversion, for example), or Kagi just doesn't get what I'm trying to search.

Currency conversion is not technically a search. It is question answering and Kagi capabilities are still being built. Google only has a 20 year headstart. Can you report all such cases to kagifeedback.org so they are on our radar?

[rntksi]

Thanks, currency conversion was an example off the top of my head only. I am active on orionfeedback and kagifeedback, I find that they're really prompt and effective in answering to feedback.

The other examples are a bit harder to describe and I can't quite describe how Google gets it right. I think I might need more time to describe it out, as it involves search in another language.

[usr1106]

Currency conversion is nothing you have to sell yourself to Google for. Just bookmark a bank, a financial or an academic research site that seems trustworthy. I have used the same ones for over 20 years, probably found them using Altavista at the time...