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"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov (pluralistic.net)

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"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] bloopernova 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I will need to check that out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I used this to completely block Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It takes Googles results and filters out the crap and orders results differently...

It uses more than just Google's, FYI.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Isn't that what DDG was supposed to do?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

They use Bing’s index as well and also have their own

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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.