I've been using kagi the last 1.5 years after seeing it recommended here. It's been fantastic for me. I use it on all my devices and never use Google or DDG any more. It feels like old Google with more features. Unfortunately it's not free but they just today announced unlimited search for $10/month which for me is quite reasonable. I sometimes hit over 1000 searches per month (1532 is my record so far). Although it costs money I like knowing that kagi is the product, not me or my data m
I'm using brave search and digging it. I _really_ love the goggles feature. They have popular ones such as "Hacker News 1k short". Really makes the old web come alive. Also a fan of the "lk short" one.
When google first appeared it was a revolution compared to everything else. If you expect this kind of difference, none of the alternative search engines come close.
If you are looking for big search engines, there aren't many really, I strongly believe you should give them all a shot and just alternate between them.
The biggest takeaway from this is that google isn't massively better than the worst alternative anymore and it sticks mostly due to recognition.
> When google first appeared it was a revolution compared to everything else.
At first it wasn't even because their search was that much better than anyone else's. What made google popular was that it wasn't a massive, messy, ad-filled page of things you didn't care about. Other search engines were bloated "portals" that tried to do everything: email, news, shopping mall, weather, etc
Google had a simple clean interface that loaded instantly on a typical dial up connection and that's really what got people to make it their homepage. Today, google has slowly turned into exactly what it was created to solve. Ad-filled bloated pages that try to be everything by pushing things you don't care about in your face.
rickoooooo|2 years ago
kilroy123|2 years ago
https://search.brave.com/goggles/discover?goggles_id=https%3...
wakeupcall|2 years ago
If you are looking for big search engines, there aren't many really, I strongly believe you should give them all a shot and just alternate between them.
The biggest takeaway from this is that google isn't massively better than the worst alternative anymore and it sticks mostly due to recognition.
autoexec|2 years ago
At first it wasn't even because their search was that much better than anyone else's. What made google popular was that it wasn't a massive, messy, ad-filled page of things you didn't care about. Other search engines were bloated "portals" that tried to do everything: email, news, shopping mall, weather, etc
Google had a simple clean interface that loaded instantly on a typical dial up connection and that's really what got people to make it their homepage. Today, google has slowly turned into exactly what it was created to solve. Ad-filled bloated pages that try to be everything by pushing things you don't care about in your face.
pony_sheared|2 years ago
Scoring6931|2 years ago