I'm 2 months into paying for Kagi. I'm so happy not having ads. I didn't really expect it to feel so different to me, but it does. Similarly, I didn't expect to

I'm 2 months into paying for Kagi. I'm so happy not having ads. I didn't really expect it to feel so different to me, but it does. Similarly, I didn't expect to feel good about paying for it. But it feels like a breath of fresh air, to be paying for a service that I deem worth the price, that isn't trying to extract money from me through a side channel. I think the results have been better for me, though in a couple cases a top ranked result was 404'ing, which I've never had on google. The UI is better imo, and I've occasionally used lenses which has been useful. I haven't ever used !g in two months. I have a very fond spot in my heart for Google of years past, I fondly remember finding it in 1998 and feeling like I had an absolute superpower not just over people not on the internet, but over people still using the other search engines. And I also am somewhat of an apologist, when people dump on Google search results getting worse over the years I'm quick to point out that it's a highly adversarial problem and they're the primary target. But 24 years later, I couldn't be happier switching to Kagi now. Frankly, while I'm quite happy with my current work, it makes me fantasize of working for them.