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I've been evaluating Kagi for a couple weeks, I'm liking it, but today I'm completely sold. I've been doing a niche, technical search this morning: trying to figure out if Emacs and TRAMP can be made to work with flatpak-spawn.

Google returned a ton of unrelated posts and I had to tell it to stop ignoring my search terms. Kagi returned the only relevant page: a comment on a Github issue that Google wasn't able to find, and no other fluff, because that particular combination of words doesn't exist anywhere else on the Internet.

In other words, Google lies and paraphrases your search to return as much results as possible, usually not very relevant, while Kagi respects my search terms and can surface very niche pages. 2022 Google makes the Internet feel very small.

I've test driven Brave Search for months as well, and this is my personal ranking, from best to worst: Kagi > Brave Search = Google Search > DDG.

https://you.com/search?q=f%20Emacs%20and%20TRAMP%20can%20be%...

looks very strong too. github issue is the top results also. would love to hear what you think. we're focused especially on developers.

I like the UX, but the results are full of content farms and weird ranking for the query "golang parser" (https://you.com/search?q=golang+parser). OTOH it is much faster than kagi.

First result is good: pkg.go.dev/go/parser

Second result looks like a content farm: golangdocs.com/golang-parser-package

Third result looks like a valid Chinese search result, but it's a duplicate of the first result and also _very_ weird that it would rank that highly: golang.cm/pkg/go_parser.htm

Then the next two results are content farms: golangexample.com/tag/parser/ golangexample.com/a-dead-simple-parser-package-for-go/

Then a valid result from a low-starred GH project: github.com/prataprc/goparsec

Then a good result: blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2014/parsers-lexers/

Then a random seemingly unrelated academic paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/1505.08075

Then a valid result from a high-starred GH project: github.com/alecthomas/participle

Then another content farm: awesomeopensource.com/projects/golang/parser

kagi also has a bunch of the content farms, but the ranking is better IMO. Good luck!

Brave has the same results as Google

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