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by unlikelymordant 533 days ago
I have used kagi for quite a while now, and i use it pretty much exclusively. I was unhappy with google ignoring many terms in my search queries and giving me results that I generally considered to be 'intro' pages and generic content, even when my searches were very specific. I have found kagi much better. I dont use any of the advanced stuff like summarisation or ai stuff, i just want search results that have my keywords in them.
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Google search is almost useless for anything but the most basic queries now. Anything technical and it ignores half of the search terms like you said.
Google Search has been in decline since they came up with Google+ and removed the Plus Operator from Google Search at the same time (and replaced it with quotes that don't do the same thing). About 13-14 years ago.
If you add minus signs to of popular sites you get better results. However you then end up with a search of something like:

   -google -twitter -reddit -amazon -youtube some search
intext: and quoting solves this…
I haven't found quoting helps much. I also feel like i shouldnt have to craft search queries with a lot of inurl or other tags or quoting. Kagi just seems to work better. Its worth 10$ a month to me to not have to worry about it, I use search engines a lot.
and intext: ? I didn't say that quoting solves it