My Experience with Kagi Search (Google Search Replacement)

[ilrwbwrkhv]

So I was wanting to replace Google Search for a long time due to the poor results filled with ads and content farmed articles.

I signed up for the Kagi Search beta (kagi.com) and finally received my invite this week.

So far, all the searches that I have tried, I have gotten better results than Google.

DuckDuckGo was something I sometimes used but I would often have to !g a lot of things or feel like I might be missing out on better results. So that would make me also Google search those things.

With Kagi I have not found that till now. In fact the results have been so good that I didn't feel like I needed to also search Google for very important queries.

Amazingly my go to query to test search engines has been "frozen record" without the quotes which I want to point to: https://github.com/byroot/frozen_record.

It is a query which almost every other search engine doesn't quite get since it contains two common words but surprisingly kagi gets it and places the result at number 2 which is huge.

I know a lot of people here have been clamouring for a different search so I thought this might be useful. No relations with Kagi.

[geoah]

Been using kagi as well and have similar results. I’ll go back to google from time to time on specific queries to check if it offers better results and it will rarely be the case. The custom ranking adjustment is also amazing. There are so many crappy websites that ripped github issues and stack overflow and presented them in their own way that I can now just block.

[pschuegr]

The only thing that I keep having to switch back to Google for is the tight integration with maps (hours for local store?) and the little context sensitive details that they have custom code for (movies, metronome, etc). Other than that I have been using Kagi 100% and am pretty satisfied.

Although I wish they had a nicer dark theme.

[ilrwbwrkhv → pschuegr]

You can use custom CSS I think in their settings

[hboon]

Been using Kagi for more than 2 months. Definitely looks good enough for me. I don’t remember switching over to Google because I couldn’t find what I wanted and then finding it.