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"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov (pluralistic.net)

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"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I've used it for quite a while now, so I can safely say it's not just the honeymoon effect. There are certain specific searches that I will prefer Google, for example if I know an exact string from a document that I'm looking for. Google still has a larger search base so if there's information that can only be found in one or two places, Google is more likely to work. Image and video search on KAGI is still a little bit finicky. I might use Google, DDG, or Bing for those (Actually, DDG is just a front end for Bing in this regard). For everything else, when I'm looking for information or answers to questions, Kagi is the best there is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I've recently started using Qwant since Mozilla has partnered with them and I've been pretty satisfied so far.

What Google has over every other search engine is local results. There's just no getting around how much useful data Google has on every business in the world.

[+] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I take your point, and agree when it comes to Google

But here's rabbit hole for anyone interested. That brand name being synonymous with the product thing is actually fairly regional.

We just call them tissues here. I think you can get Kleenex brand here, but I don't think anybody cares about the brand of tissue. There's a particular kind that has some kind of aloe Vera extract which is all I'll use if I'm sick, but I don't even know what brand they are.

On the flip side, we call marker pens Biros, and where I grew up we called them Khokis

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

We call it a sleeve where I come from...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yep, it's regional.

Where I grew up only a few people used "kleenex", and I never hear it where I live now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Been using kagi for several months now and can't imagine going back. The only thing I still use google for is when I want to shop for a specific product after having used kagi to do my homework. I'm sure I can configure a filter for that, but haven't gotten around to that yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I primarily use a couple locally hosted LLMs for searching for info now.

Larger LLMs are trained on so much info that they get the answer right surprisingly often.

Only thing they of course struggle with are recent events.

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