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I see people complaining a lot about the #enshittification of web search engines. @austincnunn proposed using the subscription-only search provider #kagi instead.

I gave it a try, and most others, I guess, should do the same.

Especially search personalization (instead of results paid for by 3rd parties) makes the internet a different place.

Trial is free. I'll decide about a subscription later on.

kagi.com/

kagi.comKagi Search - A Premium Search EngineBetter search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

Appreciate the recognition from Cory Doctorow:

"This year saw some new, exciting discovering and challenges. First and foremost is my switch to kagi.com as my preferred search-engine, which is like having access to a time machine that's connected to pre-enshittificated Google"

"Kagi's image search is amazing, far better than Google's, and it has great copyright-based filters."

pluralistic.net/2024/12/07/gre

pluralistic.netPluralistic: A year in illustration (2024) (07 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

According to Statista, advertisers spent $185.35 billion to influence your search results in 2022. By 2028, they'll spend $261 billion💰

At Kagi, we believe your attention and data shouldn't be for sale - that's why we work directly for users, not advertisers or any third parties.

Kagi's new translation service keeps knocking it out of the park. I have been challenging it with more nuanced aphorisms, weird turns of phrase, stuff that Google, Reverso, and DeepL all get close, but subtly wrong, and Kagi is nailing it every time.

This is deliberately difficult. It is designed as a Dutch tongue twister, and grammatical trickery, using homophones/homonyms, designed to make your average student cry.

This translation is, as far as I can tell, flawless.

The one digital thing that has made my life unquestionably better in 2024 is #Kagi search.

In the constant flood of #enshittification turning online services & channels gradually worse, it's a beacon of hope that you can still A) pay for a search engine and B) get a great user experience in return.

Don't settle for search tools force-feeding you GenAI crap. Try Kagi: kagi.com/