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Kagi search is a paid search engine that delivers higher quality results with no ads. I'm currently using the free trial (you get 100 searches for free) and enjoying it.

https://kagi.com/

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Also been really enjoying Kagi, just converted to the $10/mo unlimited searches plan even before my trial ran out because it's such a breath of fresh air!

$10/mo seems really reasonable if its actually that much better than google

This also gives you access to some of their AI tools, such as being able to summerize the results of your search using their quick answer feature.

This is something Google can't and won't do because they, and the people they depend on, would lose too much ad revenue. This is going to be a future problem as we transition to AI and AI assisted search for information retrieval.

It's amazing. I searched for a recipe and didn't end up with some bloggers life story.

How does a search engine control this? Did it extract it? Does it search some recipe database instead? I'm confused how using Kagi netted this as this seemed to just be a defect from SEO. Is it just that Kagi doesn't promote pages like that so you end up getting the ones that don't have it?

No, it just had an allrecipes result at the top. Maybe they mark some recipe websites as good? Maybe they put less importance on quantity of text. Maybe they are not motivated to send me to a page where I need to scroll through a blog post (and ads) to get to the ingredients/steps.

One of the things they do is have the number of trackers on a website affect its ranking (negatively). I imagine that is an effective signal in cases like this.

Kagi also uses Bing

According to this page [1], they do use external sources (Google, Mojeek, Yandex and more), but not Bing ;)

They also have their (two) own indexes.

Tbh, for me (as small town dev) it feels like magic how fast those different sources are combined, additionally with user search preferences like raising or blocking certain domains. Insides welcome :)

Edit: Here [2] are some benchmarks and general strategies they pursue. Would love to read more details.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

[2] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-speed.html

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