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Not really. Kagi weeds out those pretty well in practice. The results are mostly same as from Google, but the crap is removed and organic sites get a boost.

The only place where Kagi is mostly worse is figuring out that the query is actually about a specific place and results should point to a map. At least for me.

Which makes sense. There are no Kagi maps. It might be interesting to leverage OSM.

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> Not really. Kagi weeds out those pretty well in practice. The results are mostly same as from Google, but the crap is removed and organic sites get a boost.

It doesn't do that because that's impossible. If you search for something that's in the news, you visit the news site retrieved by the search engine. That has no bearing on the fact that site will, most likely, be heavily ad supported, most likely.

> organic sites get a boost.

Sorry but I can't infer any meaning from that fragment. What is an "organic site"?

Please see their article [1] for details, before claiming something is impossible. TL;DR: They check how many ads and trackers are on websites and punish those in the sorting. Most of the useless websites are full of affiliate links, ads and tracking so they naturally get downgraded.

If you’re talking about a niche topic with only one result you obviously still get that one result, but I’d argue for most search terms the issue lies in ordering the very many results.

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/search-enhancements

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