[andrewinardeer]

Be that as it may, with Kagi at least I can choose to omit sites from search results or "pin" high quality sites.

Plus, privacy

[mrweasel]

Sure, but that's wasn't the context. It was about real alternatives, which excludes Bing or Google and Kagi doesn't do that.

[freediver]

When we are talking about search alternatives we are really talking about alternatives to bussiness model (otherwise why bother?), and Kagi is the only alternative out there in the sea of ad-supported search engines.

[carlosjobim]

Of course Kagi is a real alternative. It's not Google search and you can verify that by trying searches and comparing the results you get from either engine.

[mrweasel]

In that case you can include DuckDuckGo, you get vastly different results compared to plain Bing.