[giancarlostoro]

I would honestly pay at minimum $10 a month to a search engine startup that focuses on the top 10k, then top 100k Alexa sites, and does good indexing of top sites. If I google something programming related, give me all the stackoverflow you find relevant. I don't even care about image search, that can come later. I think the world has room for a search engine competitor, I'm just not sure what it would look like, but I hope someone is working on something that isn't just a repeat of hot garbage.

[LeonenTheDK]

Just a suggestion, I'm not a subscriber but am investigating the service: Kagi might come close to that. You can up or down rank sites too boost their visibility in your searches. Would take some time to get going but eventually I think one would end up with a much better and almost curated result set.

Generally though these days I'm trying to distance myself from Google so if anyone has any other search engine suggestions (beyond the usual DDG, Bing, Yandex, Neeva) I'm very open.

[giancarlostoro]

I think this is okay so long as you can toggle it off since now you apply userbase bias, which isn't guaranteed to be perfectly neutral, since it is bias in aggregate, anything remotely ideological in nature would be skewed one way or the other.

I do like this idea however.

[LeonenTheDK]

My understanding of is that it's just for you, not based on what every user of Kagi is choosing. Looking in the settings though I'm not sure if you can disable this feature on an ad hoc basis, which would be useful now and then if you want to get a fresh set of results and get out of your own biases.