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More keywords does the opposite of narrowing the query. Unless you use quotes and/or other operators, it’s enough for the document to contain only one of your keywords (anywhere, including meta tags) to be a match. Hope this helps.
Oh and you can use Google completely anonymously. You can't do it with Kagi. All your searches go with your billing address (but you can trust Vlad they won't ever use it to profile you).
Maybe the aura of superiority from paying $10 per month for something 99% ppl don't pay for blinds you to the above facts.
Your billing address is not something advertisers can use to track you. Sure, if you use Kagi to commit crimes you may not be anonymous to the police. But there are a lot of people who do not want to be profiled by ad networks, yet do not consider providing their billing information to be a privacy issue.
Your comment about "the aura of superiority" is dismissive and a little confrontational. The commenter you were responding to was clear about why he likes Kagi - better results. I agree with him.
I find that searches for product reviews and similar commercial terms have much higher quality results than google. I also find that I get better results when I am searching for errors or lines from logfiles. Even when quoted, I find that Google will often return results that partially match my quote ignoring the important part, which makes the search useless.
And it goes away if you pay for it?
> Sure, if you use Kagi to commit crimes you may not be anonymous to the police.
The "nothing to hide" arguments, gotcha.
> But there are a lot of people who do not want to be profiled by ad networks
And using Kagi helps with that how? You know that if you open any website from results, you are still profiled by ad networks?
> Your comment about "the aura of superiority" is dismissive and a little confrontational
I was replying to someone who accused me of being superior (because I know how to use Google? lol). Garbage in, garbage out.
> Even when quoted, I find that Google will often return results that partially match my quote ignoring the important part
As I said, if there is no exact match I see "no results for your search". It is a daily occurrence. It smells of planted misinformation, sorry. Considering you are a newly created account as well.
1) Google now requiring special skill to use is a totally legitimate way in which Google is inferior
2) I'm actually quite good at Googling and know much of the advanced syntax -- still sucks as of a few years ago!
Obviously people's mileage may vary, but if anyone else is reading this and hasn't tried Kagi: you should. It is unambiguously and inarguably worth trying.
I encountered spam with Kagi half a dozen times. It was labeled "trustworthy". It is 100x worse than just seeing spam. Having to pay for it just adds insult to injury.
If there is a search engine it will be gamed. What we need is not trust the algorithm but have a good query mechanism.
> Obviously people's mileage may vary, but if anyone else is reading this and hasn't tried Kagi: you should
If your searches are uncomplicated and you are okay relying on algorithm without thinking, absolutely. buy it for your grandma and set it as her default search? 100%. But if you are a power Google user, you will be disappointed.
I left after I noticed that Google gets me mostly the same results. Plus I have more privacy and less tracking across all web if I don't need to leave private mode.
> literally no one is gaming a search engine with like 0.01% market share.
Kagi is a front-end for google and other search engines. Gaming google and bing is literally gaming kagi.