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by pbronez 1255 days ago
+1 for Kagi. The lenses and customization are nice, but I switched just for the raw query speed. It’s the snappiest service I use daily.
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Really? I'd +1 for kagi too. But I have 2 problems with it. The first is the load speed. Sometimes it just takes so long that I just repeat my search to Google, especially on phones. By long I meant a few second so it's not that bad. Just long enough that I lose patience.

I'm not sure if it's issues with my connection since I rarely go to Google nowadays. But I never felt the same problem with Google.

In case you're curious, the second issue I have is with private browsing. The session is not carried over so I'm not logged in. I keep forgetting this and kept having to manually open Google and retype my query. I guess not technically Kagi's fault but still.

Kagi has a private session token feature that you can use to carry on searching in private window (also a browser extension that does this automatically).
But still you have to be log in with your account that is linked with your credit card.
If you used a prepaid card in a different jurisdiction (and that didn’t verify names), anyone coming after you would need warrants from two countries or to have breached two systems.
So private mode in browser won't change anything to be clear.