[dot5xdev]

I'm currently paying for Kagi. It's nice. But, so far I feel like it may only be like 2% better than Google, probably not enough to keep me long term.

A lot of times the results are better on Kagi than Google, but not by much. It makes sense they're similar since Kagi uses Google's index (among others).

[sph]

> 2% better

Not in my experience, and what about user tracking and pervasive advertising? You don't seem to include that in your comparison.

[hovering_nox]

>user tracking

You can use Google anonymously but you have to log in and leave your payment data with Kagi.

EDIT: apparently they accept crypto

[sph]

Not very anonymous when 99% of websites on the internet use Google Analytics, so it's pretty easy to follow you around the web.

[xigoi]

Isn't Google Analytics blocked by pretty much any ad blocker?

[smoldesu]

True, but a bit of a moot point if both search engines will indiscriminately route you to those websites anyways. It's not like I'm opting-out of that issue by using DuckDuckGo right now.

[dot5xdev]

Yeah, I'm strictly talking about search results. That's the main thing I care about. No ads is nice, but if I can't find information I need then that's not very useful to me.

[vunderba]

personally I run Firefox + uBlock Origin + uBlacklist. This mean:

- no ads

- one click to permablock SEO spam sites from appearing in searches

- minimal user tracking (not logged into a google account)

Kagi would likely have a better value proposition if I did more searching on mobile though.

[dot5xdev]

Firefox on Android runs uBlock Origin. But no uBlacklist. Kagi does have that built in.

[dpkirchner]

Being able to block domains (without an extension) makes Kagi at least 30% better on its own. Maybe more. It's absolutely a killer feature and one that Google themselves used to have.