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People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays (lemm.ee)
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[–] twei@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do they already have their own index? Last time I used it (when it was still beta) it was quite okay, but it was basically yandex or whatever with a different front-end and site-pinning

[–] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at https://kagi.com/faq .

They basically query other search engines and APIs in a privatized manner and they use their own indexes as well. I used Google, Ecosia, StartPage, DDG, a self-hosted SearXNG instance and then Brave. I liked DDG and I kinda liked Brave Search, as well. But in comparison to Kagi, they're all not that good in my opinion.

The image search of Kagi is especially what blows me away. It just shows relevant results for my queries and I'm satisfied.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

I love kagi. I use it mainly for work, where it gives much better results. It even has a programmer lens so that it shows results that are relevant to programmers. But its image search didn't work that well for me. Not sure if I'm just not formulating the queries right though.