For a long time my significant use case for Google Web Search (GWS) was date-ranged search. DDG had relative bounds (past day/week/month/year), but not a custo

For a long time my significant use case for Google Web Search (GWS) was date-ranged search. DDG had relative bounds (past day/week/month/year), but not a custom range. That changed a couple of years back, and has been excellent. Now it's mostly really old websites, > ~20 years. Here Google's crawl still seems more robust than DDG's / Bing's. (And yes, DDG leans heavily on Bing.) Again, I use DDG and retry failed searches via !g bang search. But that's rarely any better. FastGPT via Kagi is transformational in that I can ask questions and get answers, rather than turning up web pages. Kagi's GPT adds links which reference its sources, which is hugely more useful than ChatGPT in my experience. FastGPT still occasionally hallucinates, but its sources can be much more readily verified. ChatGPT OTOH, hallucinates sources when requested to provide them.