@casualconversation when one needs to launch a search on the internet, the most common tool they have at hand is google. I do the same too.However, l’ve begun to find it shallow and restrictive. Better suggestions anyone ??😃😃😃
Seconding Kagi. It makes searching feel as it did before bloat became the norm.
Thirding Kagi. Their research assistant is pretty good too, if you don’t recoil from AI like a vampire to sunlight.
as I get older I use search engines less and less since I alredy know the website I want to use and just tipe in URL directly, but when I do need to search some term I tend to use qwant since it is european and private. It tends to be less cencored in my expirience.
I have DuckDuckGo set as default everywhere (with all the AI n such turned off), and I only revert back to Google sometimes when shopping or doing deep research. It still just does some things better, but it’s worth avoiding if you don’t need it.
For a few years I was a happy (paying) Kagi customer and like mentioned in other comments already, for me there was no going back: it works great, it’s bloat free with even a focus on small web, and a lot of cool features. Then, the new US President arrived with his team and their shitty politics. As a EU citizen I could not trust US services anymore and I was not willing to send them money either…
I went back to the French Qwant. It’s far from being perfect (they’re working on their own index but so far I think they still use Microsoft’s Bing), at least it protects my privacy from Microsoft’s (and it works fine).
Would I be US citizen, I would happily keep paying for Kagi. It’s really good. Much better than anything else, imho.
If you like obscure things like I do try marginalia
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You may not find lot results with this web engine but it is kinda refreshing :)
