I’ll go first. I’ve used a lot of search engines, I used duckduckgo for quite some time but found their search results kinda bad. I’m currently using ecosia the search results are similar to ddg’s but at least I’m planting trees, so there’s that.
DuckDuckGo. I can’t live without !bangs.
Do you mean like !google or !amazon ? I use ddg. Just making sure I know what you mean
Kagi. Yes, it’s paid and the pricing structure is really meh, but:
- Actual privacy
- No BS like with DDG
- AI features (like a “quick answer” feature that’s really useful)
- Has its own index along with others
- Search results are great, probably better than DDG’s
- “Lenses” (basically narrow results by a set of sites)
- Devs are pretty cool
I didn’t know it was privacy focused or that they were building their own index, that’s really cool. Do you think it’s worth the money?
For some reason the thought of a paid search engine has never even crossed by mind before. I’ve been using DDG but this has peaked my curiosity. Thank you.
Edit: The pricing is… very… meh.
I was using DuckDuckGo and it was giving me pretty ‘eh’ results, only marginally better than google on the surface level, but both weren’t really usable for deep older searches. (and ddg starting to add sus ads/promoted) Brave is better, but Kagi has been fantastic when I’ve really needed to find something specific, technical, or very old. I think the best way to come about the pricing structure and limited search results is that I think it’s not supposed to be your only search engine from then on. There are times when you need what kagi gives in terms of producing quality and relevant results, and times you just wanna search “[company name] reviews/is a scam?” that using kagi wouldn’t serve you better than anything else, so it’s more of a tool that you bring out when you aren’t finding what you need with free search engines. On it’s own page it doesn’t try and oversell you on it, they admit that the majority of people don’t need paid search most of the time.
I haven’t approached if it’s an early netflix thing where you could split the bill with others for one login/family plan, that might make it more feasible.
DuckDuckGo, but I’ve been testing Qwant (also privacy focused) lately as well.
SearX-ng
Duck duck go first, and if results are shit, I default back to google