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What's your opinion? Does google really "not work" anymore? Are there any better search engines? Why did the quality of search results go down? I honestly stumbled onto this question through this music video, what is ironic in it's own way i feel...

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[–] Peafield@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never heard of Kagi but it does sound I intriguing.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You will love it. I switched about 6 months ago and it's wonderful. When I was using duckduckgo I had to use the !g keyword to search Google sometimes. With Kagi, it's basically switch and you forget Google exists.

Set it as default and you will see what I mean.

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it's paid 😭 I spose I could try it for a month.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yup try it and set as default in the browser. You will start to see a lot of sites that never showed up in google also. They have these "listacles" in search results where they group relevant sites into a small list, which makes it super simple to go to them for results.

If you want a sample search, try "best tv shows 2023" or something like that.

[–] windowsphoneguy@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

More like organic user reviews I would say.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve tried Kagi several times and the results for me are not good. I’ve pretty much gone back to Google unfortunately.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Can I ask what kind of searches you're doing? I don't find google all that great, so I'm curious what you're searching for where google gives you good results.