Try the free trial.
They give you enough searches for free that you should be able to figure out if there is value for you and the type of searches you do.
I find it a much better experience than Google which was what I was using before.
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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is Kagi worth it? I mostly use DDG but every search engine I’ve tried is terrible now and rapidly getting worse by the day.
tempest@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Absolutely. I’ve been using it for a month and it feels like Google, but before they enshittified. DDG was my previous goto search engine, but it’s gotten really bad as well. Especially the aggressive keyword replacements drove me almost insane.
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think so. I’ve been using it for over a year, as another poster said Kagi feels like Google did 15 years ago, before it destroyed itself.
Every time I use a search on another machine, my first reaction is “oh my god what is all of this shit everywhere? ads, spam, AI slop, shopping garbage, etc”, then I quickly realize it’s not my computer and that’s just what Google looks like now.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I enjoy it. They have a 100-search free trial so you can test it out for yourself. Between them down ranking sites full of trackers and allowing you to put your own preferential ratings on sites, I find myself getting the results I’m after so much quicker.
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Startpage is OK
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Starpage is slightly better than DDG. I like how SP also enables masked entry into a website.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’ve heard differing accounts. Some people definitely swear by it. But if you’re just using search as a portal to Wikipedia or Generic News Of the Day, it still points you to the same catalog of high profile sites as everyone else.
$5-10/mo isn’t a wallet buster. But is it really any better than searching Google with udm=14 turned on? YMMV.