[jwmcq]

> How does search quality really change my life?

Ask this to someone who remembers when Google first appeared.

I am not a Kagi user, but am seriously considering it after a number of months having to dig through at least 8 results of paywalled or possibly AI-generated pages for almost every Google query; seriously, I just did a search for 'python concatenate list' on google and it was worse than I expected - the official docs weren't even on the first two pages and even the helpful Stack Overflow answers were the 5th result down - give it a go, the results are trash.

I google things at least 20 times a day, and probably so do you. I would pay for something that can cut out the bollocks - if Kagi can follow through, they'll have a customer.

[constantly]

Yep, I think I’m going to try Kagi. I am so, so tired and exhausted of every search result on Google being “the top X in ${this_month_of_this_year}” with a list of Amazon affiliate links. I append Reddit to the searches for products now, but notice on higher margin items you can click into Reddit user history of people giving their “opinion” and see that every post they make is about that particular product.

[g_p]

Just tried that same query without the quote marks on Kagi.

The first result is an info box from Stack Overflow showing use of the + operator to join two lists (with a link to source).

Then 4 more relevant SO posts (which are more nuanced and specific than the generic query, like concatenating into a single string, or concatenating without creating a copy.

Then a small inset box as a "blast from the past" with 4 older blog posts, at least 2 of which look pretty relevant here just from the title.

Then 5 more SO posts (again more nuanced and specific variants of the underlying question), and a digital ocean post on 6 ways to concatenate a list in Python.

[rajamaka]

I just ditched search altogether for questions like that and use ChatGPT. Has improved my workflow so much.

[eviks]

That's a very common example, but python official docs are bad, so it's not a sign of anything bad if they're not at the top

And on free duckduckgo I get "instant answer" example from SO http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1720421 Though the official docs are also not on the first few pages

(Btw, you could also use an extension to 1-click filter garbage out from search if it has a high impact on life)