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Comment by thematrixturtle | Hacker News Reader

DDG is a dead end. The good news, if you already tolerate DDG mostly because of the bangs, you'll love Kagi (https://kagi.com/), which supports them and has far superior ad-free search results.

Disclaimer: No connection except as a satisfied paying user ($12/mo).

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I appreciate their stated commitment to avoid censorship in general, but would prefer an explicit dismissal of ideological filtering. By the way, their pricing page is currently offering premium service for $10/mo.

I’d like to try out Kagi but having every search I do tied to my real world identity (via payment information) with no ability to search privately really kills it for me.

Yup, also my main reason for avoiding them.

Kagi does not tie searches to an account, as a matter of fact it does not log them at all (and why would it when you already pay with your wallet)

https://kagi.com/privacy

+1 to this. Also no affiliation but I joined during their beta and have been a member ever since.

Unrelated - I use kagi too! I was watching a supervised learning series on YouTube by Killian Weinberger here [0] and he used an email from kagi as an example of spam.

[0] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl8OlHZGYOQ7bkVbuRthEsaLr...

That is curious, can you give an exact time point in video?

23:05 onwards in the first video

Kagi claims they get search results from google, isn’t that not allowed?

Google offers this as a paid service: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview

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