• droans@midwest.social
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    10 hours ago

    Kagi.

    The downside is that it costs $10 per month.

    The upside is:

    • Privacy first
    • You can pin websites to the top of results, promote them so they appear higher, demote them so they appear lower, or have them completely removed
    • Lenses - quickly tell Kagi what type of results you want (News sources, academic articles, forum posts, programming sites, small web, etc.)
    • Snaps - search shortcuts kinda like bangs. Eg, typing @w is the same as typing site:wikipedia.com
    • An actual good AI summary. Completely unobtrusive - only activated when you press the button, doesn’t overextrapolate your request, and will only source the same results that you get from the search
    • Direct image results

    When I first migrated a couple years ago, it was a bit worse than Google but pretty close. Nowadays, I find it to be much much better. It’s honestly close to how Google was back in 2015 before they made it garbage.