• shalva97@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    11 months ago

    I switched to Kagi for everyday usage, yandex for piracy and Google Maps for finding places on the map. There really is no one option.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        11 months ago

        Absolutely! I’m not the person you asked, but that’s my answer. I’ve been using it for about 5 months now, and my sanity is greatly preserved. Google, Bing, and all the others were driving me crazy with how worthless the results were, and how every search somehow pushed a product or news site.

        • satanicleftist
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          11 months ago

          Echoing this, i gladly pay for the professional tier, Kagi’s fastGTP and summarizer are quite nice, and the custom search ranking system is a godsend.

          • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            11 months ago

            Yeah, it’s pretty great when I search a question and it just puts the answer at the top of the page, as determined by the consensus on whatever pages it has crawled. I haven’t fully trusted that yet and still read the pages, but it hasn’t been wrong yet. I’ll probably start trusting it.

      • lixus98@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        11 months ago

        It won’t be worth it for everyone tho, I am a heavy search user, I search many times a day for work and just cause I like reading about everything. Someone who searches once or twice a day might not find value.

      • shalva97@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        11 months ago

        Yes. For me Kagi is like Jackett (a selfhosted website to search torrents). I can tell it which websites I like to see results from. Or I can block websites entirely.

        If Google also adds ability to block specific websites I will go back to it. Many people say Google’s results are bad, for me it’s bad because I keep seeing websites I hate in their search results.