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by shadowgovt 1215 days ago
Neither do the nerd complainers, apart from scoping their search to a few trusted information repositories (Reddit, StackOverflow, &c).

Nobody's cracked the "general search across the whole Internet" nut better than Google has right now. But that nut itself has encountered challenges in yielding value as of late.
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eitland 1215 days ago
Good news: kagi.com is mostly a shell over Google and Bings apis, but they do quality control and they are building their own index.

I have paid for months from my own pocket and since I started using it, search doesn't drive me mad anymore.

It is not perfect, but anytime I find a problem now a real human verifies it or ask for clarification within hours and a fix is made an pushed with a reference to my report.

Also: for some narrow searches like arcane git knowledge or some niche parts of history etc, search.marginalia.nu is actually a lot better than Google and DDG and Bing. I am actually serious! Much less spam and you find results that could easily have drowned in between "top ten" articles in any mainstream search engine.

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rubslopes 1215 days ago
I'm not a Kagi subscriber, but I'll be. Yesterday I was looking for a pdf reader app with a specific feature. Nor Google nor Bing helped me; result pages were almost 100% ads (most by Adobe). I was giving up. My first try with Kagi gave me exactly what I wanted.
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eitland 1215 days ago
Exactly.

Can I guess it wasn't a result of keyword stuffing with every result but Google and Bing "forgot" some of your search terms to show you more thinly veiled ads/"content"?

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rubslopes 1213 days ago
Yup. Nailed it.
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cvalka 1214 days ago
The founder of kagi.com - " I was grateful to be the VP of Product at GoDaddy (2016 - 2018)." Thanks, but no thanks.
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