Here I was in my own little bubble appearently, thinking people were using https://kagi.com to search now that it exists, but a comment I got made me realize that’s probably not the case…
You really should try this search engine. I switched to it 6 months ago and before that I was using duckduckgo, and often had to throw a !g in there to get proper results.
I remember setting it as default as a test and then I just forgot about Google. :)
It’s not free however, you will have to pay a few bucks for it. But to me it’s about supporting alternatives to Google which I very happily do. It’s only a few bucks.
Have you tried it and what was your experience?
I have been experimenting with this week and while I like it, I am still not sure I like it enough to find it worth paying. It is still mostly using Google and Bing as a search provider, so I haven’t so far found drastically different results than what I get from DuckDuckGo. Having a limit on searches also makes me a bit anxious when you are used to just searching for all kinds of stuff simply because I am lazy and don’t want to type in full URLs or go to my bookmarks. Lots of muscle memory that needs to be revamped. I do see the potential in how it can be customized with personalized lenses and lowering/raising specific domains. And the people behind it seem really nice on Discord, so I expect to see a lot of innovation in search that we haven’t seen from Google in years.
Technically it is not very different - it gives the same search results with some extra pluses. But by using it, Google don’t get to save those private searches under your personal private name in their databases. Why are we ok with them doing that? I’m really not.