[xvello]

I have been using Kagi for 6 months now, and really enjoy its clean interface and relevant results. Being able to boost the ranking of relevant domains and downgrade the low-quality ones is a game-changer!

To remove pinterest and slackoverflow mirrors from all search engines, I use https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results

[thearrow]

Same. Due to the steady decline in the quality of Google results (even with an ad-blocker), I made the switch. Never thought I would pay for a search engine but my experience with Kagi has been absolutely worth it. I enjoy their product and am aligned with their philosophy so I’d love to see them succeed!

[jbaber]

I moved from duckduckgo to kagi just because I like paying for a service directly when I can. Works great.

I am conscious of my true identity being linked to my searches when I use it, though.

[jmakov]

Having to have an account and your credit card info, how can they claim to be private? Am I missing sth?

[thetruedoormat]

You're confusing private and anonymous. Anonymous would be that no one knows you searched "cucumber." Private would be that someone could know that you did but it isn't shared with every single person for any reason. DuckDuckGo for instance is private in the sense that no one knows you searched what you searched, but Bing Ads knows the query to serve you a relevant ad. Signed-in to Google, Google would know your query and target an ad based on it, while adding it to a profile— in other words, it isn't private or anonymous. In a perfect world or using a search engine like searx, it's private in the sense that only the searx server knows what you searched and anonymous in the sense that Google wouldn't know who from that searx instance searched a query.

[jmakov]

Thank you, makes sense now. So anything that isn't anonymus can potentially get sold or obtained by the gov.