[barnabee]

Kagi is much better for multiple reasons IMO:

1. I pay them, so am not so much the product, from an economic perspective

2. The search results are actually better, for me at least, especially with the customisations it allows

3. They do claim to be free of ads/trackers and care about privacy

4. I see no evidence of them doing the bad things Google do

5. Even if they were just as bad, they are much smaller and it would make sense to me to give my money and attention to them over Google for that reason alone

[disqard]

Like you, I'm a paid Kagi user. I also endorse all of the points you wrote above.

However, there is the uncomfortable truth that Kagi relies on Google search results to power its own infra.