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by falsenapkin 976 days ago
Like siblings, I switched and never looked back. I used !g with DDG often, more as the years went on tbh, but with Kagi the only time I use !g is when the search results end in one page, which is rare and almost always the Google results are noisy trash. Maybe 5% of searches I check Google and 10% of those actually return something useful that Kagi didn't. On balance with how much better the other 95% of queries are, first time I'm excited to search for things.

My biggest complaint with Kagi is sometimes when I search for something the top result is a pinned domain that maybe hit the right keywords but mentally to me it was unrelated to the search I was performing. That's a pretty good problem to have at the end of the day.

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> with Kagi the only time I use !g is when the search results end in one page, which is rare and almost always the Google results are noisy trash

That might be because Google won't admit when it doesn't have results responsive to your query. It will just fill the results page with nonsense instead of saying "I couldn't find any results".

Definitely, and I'm ok with not getting results, Kagi is doing the right thing.