Too many times I used to google my vet by name and the response would be some random other vet in next town over. I'd end up calling them and immediately hang up realizing google fed me bullshit again.

Kagi just focusing on a doing a good job. It's their singular focus and its worth ever cent.

It's a night and day difference.

If you don't try kagi for a while, you won't realize how much you've given up with Google.

I get so frustrated by finding the exact phrase I'm looking for on the third page of results after 99 paid results.

Or if I search for a specific brand and the first sponsored link is their competitor.

With kagi that all disappears. And you get search results that are ranked based on how well they match your search query.

Also, be sure to try their LLM research tools, and you'll get a taste of how great it could be.

Of course, the "Chromebook" part of my statement above is probably a hint that getting rid of Gemini won't be as simple as changing the default search engine...

It does one job and does it well, and you have additional features if you want/need to configure them or tweak the results to your liking.

AI is an add-on that you can elect to use or not, and I enjoy just adding a "?" at the end and getting a proper AI response instead of an hallucinated AI summary by default that covers the entire page.

i might be a minority but ai overviews are genuinely very cool. they are promoting the "you can turn them off" as a feature, but what is actually lacking is the ability to "turn them on by default". in like 90% of my queries i DO want an ai overview. but in kagi it's tucked away behind a button, you can very easily burn through your allowance, and the models they have are.. subpar to say the least.

and as a long-time (2+ years) kagi user i find myself using google more and more just for the ai overview/ai mode, bc its just genuinely faster.

in my experience, the majority of "ai overview/mode sucks" crowd never actually tried to use it in the past months. its genuinely gotten really good. it's still an llm, of course, so it does have its quirks, but its a very useful tool to have, and its sad kagi aren't very good at doing it.

(Speaking of Orion, I used it as a daily driver for a while, but it was so unstable I had to switch away because it kept crashing, glitching and exploding in memory usage. Again, I respect the idea so much I made the maximum donation, but it just didn't work well enough for me.)

There is a clear open market in the EU for such a service.