alt Hacker NewsPeople just keep pitching Kagi as revolutionary, especially software engineers and people on HN.
I respect a lot of them, people I respect a lot, and I saw people like Jon Gjengset use it. so I gave it a few months of daily use. I just eventually drifted back to Google. The results weren't better for anything I search for. It felt different, but not better in any measurable way. $10/mo for a different feel is a strange value prop.
DuckDuckGo sits in the same spot for me. I want to like it, and I don't think one company should own web search, but when I need to find something Google finds it first. I wish the answer were different, but that's just how things are.
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This hasn't been our experience; can you please reach out to me with specific examples? My email is in my profile.
>$10/mo for a different feel is a strange value prop.
Thought Kagi would want the strange part to be, say:
"strange to let advertisers cover your monthly search bill, trading your privacy and using Google--we're only ten bucks a month!"
So, pay for peace of mind.
(do recognize $10 is an entire e.g. daily wage for some)