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Thats because many companies directly type in their data on Google My Business to make their business easier to find. There is also a community doing this (same with facebook). Smaller competitors could do the same with a community or at least manually typing in the data at least for bigger companies.

I also use Kagi and I think it's good enough for most things. But you're right, for local search results Google still is better.

This is because we are still in beta and simply do not have local search developed yet. Work in progress. Glad you are comparing a year old startup to a 20 year old, $2T company - keep us honest!