Searching for real time information that happens within a day is way worse than google. I realise how much I missed the shopping search of Google. Google map is still irreplaceable. Google search has better UX, I particularly missed the favicon that identified the site next to URL.
Image search is also way inferior
But you didn't mention the things that Kagi does better than Google which is in my experience: everything else.
Google is still "free" though so there's nothing stopping you from adding !g to your Kagi shopping searches.
I have a bookmarklet for Kagi's Universal Summarizer, and if a long article or video doesn't immediately tell me "what it's gonna tell me" then I just click it.
javascript:Object.assign(document.createElement("a"), {href: `https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html?url=${encodeURIComponent(window.location)}`, target: "_blank"}).click();
This is fair. On the other elements, I’ve found Kagi to be superior. In particular, having shopping results separated from recommendations (and summarising them with quick answers). As for favicons, uprank or even anchor your favourite domains [1]. That’s what the favicon was proxying.
[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize...
Ime image search is far better in kagi. I found some specific images that i was looking in google _for months_ and i could not find. Just because they were some older blogposts probably and google penalises older posts, and because of the AI generated cesspool that it is becoming.