Kagi is not immune to this (it's the substrate itself that's losing quality, not just search) but it's a decent antidote.
So.. how do we design a Kagi, or a parallel Internet, that is immune to this? There's clearly a market.
The only way to be immune is make ads and tracking impossible or at least not profitable enough for bigcorps to care about putting them there. So, maybe a web without Javascript, images, or videos, lol. Something truly primitive like the Gemini protocol.
But it won't take off (even within our niche communities) without some scriptability and images and videos.
I'll give this some thought. Maybe there is a way.
A lot of the time I use Kagi to find the Reddit post or Wikipedia page I need. There isn't much else.
Kagi can’t solve the fact that the internet itself has gone to shit. The independent forums are largely gone, the mainstream social media’s have all locked down and been spammed with AI slop.
They only repackage what Google et all returns.
Or have they started own indexing?
They use a mixture of sources. Some HNers like to get very angry because one of the sources is Yandex, which is Russian.