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People say Kagi is the same but it's not. It takes Googles results and filters out the crap and orders results differently, since it's not trying to get you to go to some commercial site unless you intend to.
Also the lenses are great.
Just being able to exclude certain sites, and reduce the ranking of others, makes search so much better in Kagi.
I hope they eat Google's lunch.
There is an add-on for Firefox that blocks certain domains from coming up in search results.
Super fucking helpful to block amazon
Its called u blacklist
I will need to check that out.
I used this to completely block Reddit.
It uses more than just Google's, FYI.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
Isn't that what DDG was supposed to do?
This all works until Google cut off API access to a competitor right? Relying partly on a Google API is surely suicidal for a Google Search competitor...
They use Bing’s index as well and also have their own
If you don't do anything except use it like Google, then you only get improved search results. But the other features like lenses, site ranking, URL rewriting, question mark instant answers, and document Q/A make it way more worth it to me.
I think people are just used to being passive now. They dont tinker with the tech and they think its all the same.
People still use Chrome also because Google kept saying its "faster", which doesnt even mean anything. Security, privacy and plugin support is what matters.