I'm using Kagi for quite some time now and it's awesome. But recently I was using a different machine and did not have my login credentials at hand so I used Google and holy shit I didn't remember Google giving such aweful results. I was not able to find what I was looking for. Then searched the same thing on my phone through Kagi and the solution was in the first three results. So yes I also feel that Google search is getting worse.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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The dangers of a monopoly. No matter how bad Google gets people will still use it because, in many people's minds, there is no other search engine.
What are those? DDG, Bing, Ecosia etc. are all not really better than Google. I haven‘t tried Kagi yet, mostly because it costs money.
i was struggling with DDG too, but in another post i saw someone recommend searx and it is actually really good.
Fyi searx is deprecated or at least not maintained and discontinued Switch to searxNG which is an active fork and it is really good :D
I agree it does suck in general One thing I tried is using a metasearch engine and for the least part I find the results better and way more customizable (for reference I am self hosting searxNG)
You can actually try kagi for free. 100 searches/month should be enough for you to decide if it's worth the money to you.
(Not affiliated; just a happy user)
Kagi went to bed with Brave, and when people protested they ignored it
Is kagi a metasearch engine? Or does it have its own crawler and so on?
You can use Kagi for free if you make an account and only use it when the others fail. Love Kagi, but won't pay for it.
It’s gotten so hard to find authentic, useful results that people have started adding the word “Reddit” to search terms
I have definitely done that multiple times.
I did for a long time, but it is only like 50% reliable now that I have abandoned reddit/never had the default app. So many subreddits are marked either NSFW (like weed related ones, or even certain games) or "under review," which bars anyone not signed into a profile/on the default app from accessing the community/any page within it.
So frustrating...
Google search results suck and I've actually heard regular people mention it. They just either don't know how to switch search engines or they think Bing search sucks.
Or they still think they are entitled to a "free" search engine and don't see the amount of resources needed for that and that it's actually a service worth paying for, either through a subscription or through a donation-based service.
Switching one private company for another is definitely not the way to go...