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by anneessens 860 days ago
I don't know what you're searching for, but I'm also from EU and I'm able to use Kagi for everything, including content from my own country. Sometimes I might have to change the country or language filter, but I've never had a situation where something was available on Google but wasn't available on Kagi. Nowadays, I'm only using Google for some quick answers, like showing the score of a football match or the population of a country. Kagi doesn't seem to support quick answers for these queries yet, although I have seen quick answers for weather, calculations and shipping and flight tracking. So I'm sure more quick answers will be added eventually.
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Kagi has just also integrated with Wolfram Alpha, so it is now much better at answering factual questions such as population of a country or timezone. Wofram Alpha has always been more accurate than Google on these questions.

Showing the score of a football match, and doing online shopping, are the two remaining use cases I have for google. My usage of Google has now gone down. 95%. Kagi is simply better.

Wolfram Alpha seems to work quite well from my small tests, even with recent events. However, I don't really like to read an answer that seems like it's a person talking, I would rather just see the data in a big size like on Google. That's just a nitpick though, it's definitely useful. Thanks for telling me.
One example is that if I try to lookup a specific product I'd like to buy, I'm going to find more results on Google. Also (with the country filter enabled, Romania in my case), I still get results from US, Canada and other countries (which in practice is a hassle with delivery), but even if that weren't the issue, the pages are not in Romanian either to have a reason to show up in my results.
It seems someone else in this thread has the same issue as you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39395823

This seems to be recent, so I guess that's why I didn't experience it.