As an aside, I tried to love ddg before using kagi but I'd always revert to google with !g and end up not finding anything because google has sucked for the past 5 years

I've been using kagi and I've noticed that the only time I ever switch to google is for things that are truly local to where I am at the moment (restaurants, etc..).

Kagi is really great.

I've also been testing perplexity and I'm not that convinced yet. The only thing it's been decent at is finding relevant studies.