[chrisweekly]

Radically different experience here. When I used DDG by default for a couple years, I'd resort to !g maybe 10-20% of the time. For the last few months with Kagi, it's literally 0 times I've even been tempted. Paying $5/mo to be a customer and not the product, having my privacy respected, and enjoying consistent access to excellent search results is IME equivalent to switching from browsing without an adblocker to using ublock plus or trying reader mode for the first time. It's transformative.

[metabagel]

I have had the same experience.

[faeriechangling]

Google search results can be quite a bit better for local and commercial queries.