• cybersandwich@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I highly recommend kagi.com.

    Its paid search, but it has the best results I’ve gotten from any search engine without any extra hassle. I pay for the 300 searches for $5/month.

    The only complaints people have had about it is the cost, but I’m so happy with it I’ll happily jump to the next tier if I blow through these searches.

    anecdotally, I find myself searching less and reviewing the results more. It’s less cluttered and the results, even 4 or 5 down, feel so much more valid/accurate/useful.

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      1 year ago

      I’m extremely happy with the results on Kagi. Setting up my own ‘page-rank’ with their search customizations is a godsend to get rid of any unwanted sites and promoted the sources I know I’ll come back to.

      I’m a bit turned off the pricing though, especially since last month I blew through 1000 searches before the end of last month so currently back to Google, but frustrated by every second search or so.

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        1 year ago

        I ended up paying for the unlimited $25. Figure it is worth supporting the business model and saves me a lot of time and frustration. I really wish it was $10 for unlimited though, but I do use it enough to get my money’s worth with thousands of searches per month.

        You can also try Mojeek, Whoogle and Brave search for free.

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          1 year ago

          Thanks! Replying so I remember to check them out tomorrow, but I’ll probably eventually relent and get unlimited too. With how much I apparently use it, probably worth it in the end 😅

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        1 year ago

        This is my second month with them, but I have managed to stay under the 300 so far. Admittedly, I dont have it on my phone where I do quite a few searches throughout the day–but those searches are usually not-important or I want them to be tied into the google services (like maps). I should set it up though to get a true count of my web searches.

        But I 100% find myself going to kagi for anything I really want an answer to. I can’t think of a single time where I’ve had to fall back to google or bing (which I found myself doing all the time with duckduckgo and ecosia). Like I said, if I end up needing to spend $10+/month I’d gladly do it. I get more value out of kagi than I do half of the services I play for.