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I'm currently paying for Kagi. It's nice. But, so far I feel like it may only be like 2% better than Google, probably not enough to keep me long term.

A lot of times the results are better on Kagi than Google, but not by much. It makes sense they're similar since Kagi uses Google's index (among others).

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> 2% better

Not in my experience, and what about user tracking and pervasive advertising? You don't seem to include that in your comparison.

>user tracking

You can use Google anonymously but you have to log in and leave your payment data with Kagi.

EDIT: apparently they accept crypto

Not very anonymous when 99% of websites on the internet use Google Analytics, so it's pretty easy to follow you around the web.

True, but a bit of a moot point if both search engines will indiscriminately route you to those websites anyways. It's not like I'm opting-out of that issue by using DuckDuckGo right now.

Isn't Google Analytics blocked by pretty much any ad blocker?

Yeah, I'm strictly talking about search results. That's the main thing I care about. No ads is nice, but if I can't find information I need then that's not very useful to me.

personally I run Firefox + uBlock Origin + uBlacklist. This mean:

- no ads

- one click to permablock SEO spam sites from appearing in searches

- minimal user tracking (not logged into a google account)

Kagi would likely have a better value proposition if I did more searching on mobile though.

Firefox on Android runs uBlock Origin. But no uBlacklist. Kagi does have that built in.

Being able to block domains (without an extension) makes Kagi at least 30% better on its own. Maybe more. It's absolutely a killer feature and one that Google themselves used to have.

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