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i honestly cant imagine paying for a search engine with whats out there for free

baggachipz 2y ago
Then you don't understand what you're getting. If you want to be targeted and misled by opposing incentives, that's on you.
jbaber 2y ago
Nothing stopping you from trying for one month to confirm.
NetOpWibby 2y ago
You get what you pay for
aDyslecticCrow 2y ago
The other three answers to your question were dumb, so I'll try to do better. Kagi has a free trial of 100 searches without requiring a credit card to sign up. Honest to god, try it. Just bookmark it and search once or twice when Google or Bing is giving you meh results. As an engineer... googling for stuff is a good fraction of your job. It's quite reasonable to pay to improve that experience. The only real question is what is reasonable to pay.
- orhmeh09 2y ago
  I don't think it's that amazing for an engineer. Google is much better if you're looking for things related to Intel compilers, for example. Try searching for «intel ipo fuse-ld=lld icx» on both engines. Note: I am a paying Kagi customer
  - freediver 2y ago
    I did - and Kagi results look pretty darn good to me. What were you trying to point out?
endisneigh 2y ago
You’re getting downvoted but I agree. I didn’t see the value and stopped after a while of paying. It is sad that basically any comment that isn’t pro-Kagi is downvoted but I guess that’s the Reddit-ification of this site. Most people who complain about Google don’t even use it properly (e.g. PSE).
enasterosophes 2y ago
When you use Google or another ad-powered search engine, you're saying that it's okay for some company to pay to bias the results away from your best interests. When you use, say, Kagi, you become the customer; they have a vested interest in providing you with the best experience they can, because they know they're relying on your continued patronage to be able to keep competing with those other free search engines which you already admitted are pretty good.
- abcdefg12 2y ago
  I wonder if there are any big companies paying for kagi for their workers.
mystified5016 2y ago
Kagi allows you to permanently blacklist Pinterest from appearing in any search ever. It also gives you exactly what you ask for. If you put words in quotes, you only get results matching that phrase. Same with +- modifiers, and all the other "advanced" search operators. Meanwhile on any free engine, they often completely ignore your query to show you unrelated SEO slop. You can completely forget modifiers and advanced queried, they aren't even parsed. About the only thing that still works is the site: modifier. And I'm pretty sure they only keep that because 40% of google searches include site:reddit As well, if Kagi can't find a result for your query, it returns nothing. Try searching something incredibly obscure on google or DDG. You get pages upon pages of results and they're all useless garbage or just straight up ads disguised as results. That's why I pay for Kagi. It stays the hell out of my way and only gives me exactly what I ask for and absolutely nothing else.

Then you don't understand what you're getting. If you want to be targeted and misled by opposing incentives, that's on you.

jbaber 2y ago

Nothing stopping you from trying for one month to confirm.

NetOpWibby 2y ago

You get what you pay for

aDyslecticCrow 2y ago

The other three answers to your question were dumb, so I'll try to do better. Kagi has a free trial of 100 searches without requiring a credit card to sign up. Honest to god, try it. Just bookmark it and search once or twice when Google or Bing is giving you meh results. As an engineer... googling for stuff is a good fraction of your job. It's quite reasonable to pay to improve that experience. The only real question is what is reasonable to pay.

orhmeh09 2y ago
I don't think it's that amazing for an engineer. Google is much better if you're looking for things related to Intel compilers, for example. Try searching for «intel ipo fuse-ld=lld icx» on both engines. Note: I am a paying Kagi customer
- freediver 2y ago
  I did - and Kagi results look pretty darn good to me. What were you trying to point out?

endisneigh 2y ago

You’re getting downvoted but I agree. I didn’t see the value and stopped after a while of paying. It is sad that basically any comment that isn’t pro-Kagi is downvoted but I guess that’s the Reddit-ification of this site. Most people who complain about Google don’t even use it properly (e.g. PSE).

enasterosophes 2y ago

When you use Google or another ad-powered search engine, you're saying that it's okay for some company to pay to bias the results away from your best interests. When you use, say, Kagi, you become the customer; they have a vested interest in providing you with the best experience they can, because they know they're relying on your continued patronage to be able to keep competing with those other free search engines which you already admitted are pretty good.

abcdefg12 2y ago
I wonder if there are any big companies paying for kagi for their workers.

mystified5016 2y ago

Kagi allows you to permanently blacklist Pinterest from appearing in any search ever. It also gives you exactly what you ask for. If you put words in quotes, you only get results matching that phrase. Same with +- modifiers, and all the other "advanced" search operators. Meanwhile on any free engine, they often completely ignore your query to show you unrelated SEO slop. You can completely forget modifiers and advanced queried, they aren't even parsed. About the only thing that still works is the site: modifier. And I'm pretty sure they only keep that because 40% of google searches include site:reddit As well, if Kagi can't find a result for your query, it returns nothing. Try searching something incredibly obscure on google or DDG. You get pages upon pages of results and they're all useless garbage or just straight up ads disguised as results. That's why I pay for Kagi. It stays the hell out of my way and only gives me exactly what I ask for and absolutely nothing else.