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How good is Kagi for programming-related stuff?
by wendyshu 3y ago
How good is Kagi for programming-related stuff?
- acdha 3y agoBetter than Google since you avoid the SEO spam sites which Google refuses to de-rank because they’re crammed full of ad words placements. It’s like getting 2010 Google back.
- __d 3y agoThis matches my feeling. As good, perhaps even better.
- drcongo 3y agoI find Kagi to be better than Google ever was. I don't think I've ever even had to scroll when searching for programming stuff on Kagi, let alone click through to a second page. There's a couple of things I've found where it could be better, searching for kitchen appliances like I have been this morning seems to return a fair number of low quality sites, though this could massively vary regionally.
- __d 3y agoI'm a programmer. I mostly look for C++ and Python stuff, with a smattering of other things. I find Kagi to be better than both DDG and Google today, and perhaps close to as good as Google was at its best. It's hard to tell: it's very subjective, and I'm not sure how accurate my recollection of Google's past performance is. The world has also changed: there's a lot more SEO-spam sites out there, so the job of a search engine is much harder. They have a free trial (300 queries? 500? something). I did that first. It was a little quick to finish -- I wasn't quite ready to commit when it ran out. But I bit the bullet (it's monthly, so I was out $10 at worse) and ended up staying.