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I have been a Kagi subscriber for years but I do increasingly find myself using Google. It's not good at local searches or news searches. It's also not good at showing quick context like Google's knowledge graph, especially with images. Finally it's considerably slower.

Kagi is better for research and knowledge work, Google is still better for quick lookups.

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I started hating Google Search because of its relentless AI dumps on the results page, but I have also stopped using it at all, more or less.

I got the Google AI Pro plan, which gives Gemini access by default with generous limits, and also includes free credits, code assist in VS Code and other editors, and also to Gemini CLI. And I'm just simply using that for all of my needs. It seems to work quite well so far. I see how Google Search is not relevant for me anymore.

I find the opposite, I can count on one hand the number of times I've deliberately resorted to using google search in the past year*

*except for maps results, Kagi is absolute hot trash for maps. I automatically append !gm to the end of all mappy-type searches. I wish Kagi would just kill their map product and redirect to google maps.

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