I've been using Kagi over the last few days and have actually been pleasantly surprised with it performing better than both Google and DDG for my use cases. It's still free during the beta so might be worth giving it a shot.
I’ve also been using https://kagi.com for the past couple of days and have found the search results to be unparalleled to both Google and DuckDuckGo. I haven’t come across any SEO spam and the results seem to be of better quality overall. They have all of the same bangs DDG uses and get results from Bing, Google, and a bespoke index. Because they query Bing and Google, it will be pretty expensive when it launches (it's in private beta) since it costs $12 per 1000 queries, but since search is so important, it will probably be worth it. They say they're privacy focused too, but it's hard to be sure when a product isn't open source.
Kagi isn't trying to take significant market share from Google or DDG, but find a niche (probably Hacker News type people). The one thing I find they're lacking is maps and location based results (e.g. you can't search for "lunch near me"). If you're interested, I'd recommend checking out their FAQ: https://kagi.com/faq
Signed up for the beta, but their signup page has one annoyance... clicking back doesn't take you back one page in the signup process, it ejects you to the top but your answers are saved. Fine if it's an honest mistake, weird if it's an aesthetic choice, not a good idea if it's an indicator of how they plan to be different. It would be much better to prove how smart they are by fixing google's search than "fixing" well-established UI patterns.
Thanks for sharing this link! I described my odyssey to finding craft printers in this thread [0], and just repeated the search on kagi.com. The results are better IMHO, even though the first hit is a link to some kind of Mindcraft-clone game that allows to craft printers. The second link directs at least to Canon's Craft Landingpage, and there are way less Spamsites and more Manufacturers links within the first 20 results. Those sites that are Spam, are at least a bit more disguised/offer more content than usual so I will let kagi get away with that.
JonathanBuchh|4 years ago
Kagi isn't trying to take significant market share from Google or DDG, but find a niche (probably Hacker News type people). The one thing I find they're lacking is maps and location based results (e.g. you can't search for "lunch near me"). If you're interested, I'd recommend checking out their FAQ: https://kagi.com/faq
antihero|4 years ago
technofiend|4 years ago
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littlecranky67|4 years ago
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136
Semaphor|4 years ago