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Try not living in the US/UK and looking for results in languages different than English. The sad, sad, sad reality is that Google is still best at these type o

Try not living in the US/UK and looking for results in languages different than English. The sad, sad, sad reality is that Google is still best at these type of searches. That comes, alas, with a ton of useless and often half-scammy sponsored links on top of any SERP, plus now also some awful AI-overview results that are even worse than English (but there's the cheat code for that, at least). So the only doable thing here is Google + Ublock + Anti-AI Konami Code. Possibly the best ever depiction of Enshittification in practice.

Ezhik 2y ago
There's also uBlacklist for blocking domains from search engines, a miracle extension.
senko 2y ago
Hello from Croatia. While most of my searches are in English, I just did a few searches for local topics, in Croatian, and find the results comparable. I do assume Google is faster to index and has a larger index, so finding very new, or obscure, pages in non-english languages will probably be worse in Kagi. For those niche cases I have !g
sph 2y ago
I switched back to Google as I moved back to Italy. I lasted a week before resubscribing to Kagi, the AI spam and terrible results made me hate every single interaction I had with the site. Do you know the feeling when you're using an alternative search engine that what you're looking for is missing, and to be 100% sure you have to compare with Google? I have the opposite problem now: whenever I use Google, I feel nothing relevant is being surfaced and I have to run back to Kagi. I literally have learned to associate the Google search logo with "bad quality", which is fcuking tragic for a company that used to be known for their innovative search engine.
d12bb 2y ago
German here. My searches are probably like 50:50 German:English. I don’t notice any difference in quality with Kagi’s results between the two languages, and both are well ahead of Google.
piva00 2y ago
I use Kagi for all my Swedish searches, it works better than Google every time I compare.

Ezhik 2y ago

There's also uBlacklist for blocking domains from search engines, a miracle extension.

senko 2y ago

Hello from Croatia. While most of my searches are in English, I just did a few searches for local topics, in Croatian, and find the results comparable. I do assume Google is faster to index and has a larger index, so finding very new, or obscure, pages in non-english languages will probably be worse in Kagi. For those niche cases I have !g

sph 2y ago

I switched back to Google as I moved back to Italy. I lasted a week before resubscribing to Kagi, the AI spam and terrible results made me hate every single interaction I had with the site. Do you know the feeling when you're using an alternative search engine that what you're looking for is missing, and to be 100% sure you have to compare with Google? I have the opposite problem now: whenever I use Google, I feel nothing relevant is being surfaced and I have to run back to Kagi. I literally have learned to associate the Google search logo with "bad quality", which is fcuking tragic for a company that used to be known for their innovative search engine.

d12bb 2y ago

German here. My searches are probably like 50:50 German:English. I don’t notice any difference in quality with Kagi’s results between the two languages, and both are well ahead of Google.

piva00 2y ago

I use Kagi for all my Swedish searches, it works better than Google every time I compare.