Which alternative search engines do you use?
Which alternative search engines do you use?
Since Internet search has and will change, which search engines do you use successfully, and what are their advantages?
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Kagi, hands down, is by far the best search engine I've ever used (next to Neeva, which got bought and shut down).
Just simple searches like "Best gaming headphones" or "Realtek Driver Download" and comparing them with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage, etc. shows how the quality of the results are far superior.
And you can directly define, which sites you'd like to see higher / more results of or less - or even completely block or pin them to the top.
Also, it also shows you directly, before visiting a site, in colors if a site has a very high number of ads and/or trackers.
And they support for power users custom CSS to adjust everything, URL rewrites (e.g. change all Reddit URLs to old.reddit or to automatically open libreddit), DDG and custom bangs, and much more.
Lastly, I created a so-called "Lens", which allows me to search Lemmy / Kbin content only (also still have one for Reddit).
Meaning with one click, it shows me results from only sites or keywords I've defined - see image.Very satisfied with it, can only recommend.
(copied from another thread I replied to)
Interesting. I just searched some topics related to a paper I'm working on and found some good resources which I haven't seen on Google yet. Really interesting.
I was interested in this, but $5US/month for searching is making me feel like dealing with the ads is worth it for me 😅 I am willing to pay, but I could be watching nebula for the same price.
Any insight on why it's is so expensive?
Also, TIL about URL rewrites! Now all of my search results use private frontends. Thanks for the tip!
+1 I've been using Kagi for almost a year now, and it's so good! Well worth the cost of the subscription.
Can you say a little bit about what makes it feel worth five bucks a month for you? Quality of results, ability to customize, or something else?