[seliopou]

Are there any paid search engines that the HN hive mind would recommend? I pay for my news to ensure quality. It stands to reason I should also pay for my search as well.

[genghisjahn]

Kagi has been mentioned a a half dozen times in this comment thread.

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

Kagi. Used it and it is useful.

What is nice, is that it is small enough user base that it is not worth it for sites to spend a lot of effort on SEO for it.

[rawgabbit]

Nowadays I use ChatGPT to search the web. I am very impressed.

[onemoresoop]

Does it give you links to pages?

[rawgabbit]

Yes

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search/

[jjtheblunt]

kagi : costs about one Starbucks trip per month, and is extraordinarily high signal to noise, unlike Google.

[xvector]

I've been using Kagi for a few months now and it's getting kind of annoying. Maybe I have too many pin/raise/lower/block filters, but I've been finding myself adding !g to a lot of my queries now.

[jjtheblunt]

i bet it's your "tuning" with the pin raise lower block filters. I think once using those it can obfuscate the benefits.

[oidar]

Kagi. Kagi. Kagi. Once you realize how much time you wade through garbage results with google, Kagi pays for itself.

[TexanFeller]

Kagi. It’s completely replaced Google for me.

[aboardRat4]

Not paid, but I use bing and qwant. Sometimes Yandex.