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A user returns to Kagi after trying alternatives, citing superior search quality.
The author re-subscribed to Kagi after months of trying other search engines. They had been a Kagi user since 2021. They found Google results terrible, with too much focus on AI, videos, and images over text. A custom SearxNG instance had rate-limiting problems. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, and Qwant failed to match Kagi's result quality. They missed Kagi's summarize and translate features, and CSS customization that couldn't be reproduced elsewhere. The author feels relieved to be back, stating the well is poisoned for Google and any engine that doesn't prioritize privacy and text results.
What commenters are saying
Several commenters share positive Kagi experiences, praising result quality, vim keybinds, and curation features. One user reports hitting AI usage limits recently, with costs rising from $1-2 to $9.50/month. Another asks about the author's unsolved Arabic news issue; the author says alternatives are worse and now uses Aljazeera's Arabic site directly. A significant subthread debates whether LLMs replace search: some argue LLMs are good for answers but bad for finding exact documents, while others note Kagi offers its own LLM Assistant. One user quit Kagi because it won't let them exclude Google/Yandex results.