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by hackideiomat 921 days ago
Do you still use other search engines?

You should start to do your everyday searches on both and compare the results. For me, this showed that kagi can save me time, I'm rarely scrolling to find good results where on DDG or Google I'd rephrase and search again often.

I don't like Kagi for other things, but that's not the topic here.

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I mostly use DDG. Kagi results are comparable. When DDG fails I sometimes resort to Google. I can't use Kagi routinely with just 100 queries but I try it sometimes. It is subject to the same spurious results as the others afaict. And I haven't yet seen it find anything that the others missed.
The thing with Kagi is, you can demote or remove the domains which you don't want to see, making it more yours than Google.

Also, not having ads and results manipulated for money is a real, underrated gem.

I tried Kagi for a day, and signed up right away, and I don't care that I pay for it. It works wonderfully.

If you think Kagi is comparable to DDG maybe it doesn't make sense. For me DDG is terrible, while Kagi is comparable to Google.