I noticed that search queries required more thought and perusal to get desired results than normal. Kagi previously would give good enough results that I could figure it out without having to think about Kagi itself. More recently I noticed that I wasn’t able to find answers like this anymore, and compared the query to Google. The results were pretty much identical. I kept using Kagi for another month but it persisted so I stopped my sub. I was an early adopted with Kagi and initially was very happy.

Since Kagi became Google for my purposes, I started using Google again. I don’t have much motivation to curate the customization features personally.

I would imagine that it could depend on the general type of query. As a developer I definitely noticed a decline in quality.

I’m quite privacy focused but for whatever reason don’t care if Google knows that I want to know how to write a helm chart or eat pasta later