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> I love the idea of a search engine I can fund by paying directly instead of hoping Google can continue to make money off giving me stuff

I have found Kagi to be a nearly 100% replacement for Google

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I've been using Kagi for a few months and while it is better than Google/DDG in many aspects, it still inherits the problem of ignoring words in queries.

Also, the "International" region has a strong American bias. Google still handles localised search results significantly better than anything else. I'm still a paying customer of Kagi though and I hope they get a chance to work on these issues.

Kagi still relies on Google, Bing and others to provide search results. Google and Microsoft could, in theory, end their business by refusing to provide them the search API or increasing prices by 10x. I really hope Kagi or something like it succeeds in the long term, but I don't know how viable their model is going to be without removing dependencies on megacorps.

I signed up for Kagi. I’m disappointed in all the login stuff.

You use the session link too, right? That way, once you log in once, you can set your browser to use it as the default search engine and avoid the need to ever log in again.

What do you mean, I just login once on web/mobile, set as default search engine and forget

I haven't seen them before but trying them now. Thanks! Maybe I should try to do a write up these different options.

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