[sunday_serif]

I use google search only for the most trivial searches now. Something where I know almost precisely what information I want.

I use LLMs for most info now, any slightly ambiguous query really. Often times I use the LLM to figure out what source I should find, then I just use google for retrieval

When I want to “surf the web” I use kagi search (usually with small web filter) when I want to see sources written by people. This isn’t that often, but when I need it kagi is the best!

An example, the other day I wanted to make fermented hot sauce, and I couldn’t remember how much salt was needed for the fermentation. I could google and get served hundreds of crappy ad ridden recipe sites that have the answer to my question buried under five pop up videos, or I could ask an llm with one or two follow ups and have a much more pleasant experience.

Then when I decided I wanted to follow a real recipe I used kagi with small web to find a recipe page that wasn’t an ad farm.

A few more steps than google, but all and all so much better.

[Onawa]

+1 for Kagi. Worth the $10/month for me to be able to block SEO crap from my searches, and adding "?" to the end of searches automatically gives you an LLM summary from the top search results. Unfortunately there are still some hallucinations, but since it links to original sources it's easy enough to double check if something doesn't pass the smell test.