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Why do you like it more? I looked it up and it seems nice, but it's full of sales pitches and your comment could honestly be taken as viral marketing. Are there downsides? I'm willing to pay if it is legitimately that much better of a service but I'm not sure the example results are that great compared to Google and just checking sources and skipping ads

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I paid for it for a month or so but thinking of going back now that Google is getting increasingly shittier.

I'll put it this way: It's not a lot better than 2013 Google, but it's looking a lot better than 2023 google. And this removal (just an A/B test for now, since it works fine in incognito mode) would make Google pretty much useless for me. I guess I didn't realize how bad the results have become until this option was taken from me.

Kagi is expensive for something that used to be free, but I wouldn't have to worry about core functionality being taken away to optimize their search results for ads, since there aren't any.

Sorry for the late reply! I am probably not the best to talk about all of Kagis features but the ability to customize search results and blocking domains has been amazing (Pinterest ugh). The lens feature is also great. During product research I toggle the builtin “forums” lens and exclusively get suggestions from forums which tend to be better than the abundance of paid marketing websites and much harder to find on regular search engines.

I am curious what sales ptiches is it full of?

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