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I've been using DuckDuck Go since leaving Google Search, but that seems to be the first step away. I'm not keen on their AI assist. I tried Start Page, but the first four results were ads. I don't mind paying a small fee for good search. So Brave Search or Kagi?

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[-] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

I tried Kagi because I was excited by the hype and would gladly pay a fee for superior search thats not google. But, my experience wasn't great:

  1. Couldn't reliably give me local results. E.g., searching for "pizza near me" would render results from a combination of my local city, Sydney and those in Singapore.
  2. UI needs some basic improvements. Rules of font spacing for starters.
  3. It was slow. like at least 500 ms for me to get a page of results, even though I was pretty sure it was using my closest AWS region.

I hope this doesn't come off as too negative--I don't want to be disparaging. Contrarily, I would love to hear your thoughts as a supporter of the platform. It could be that I was using it wrong, or theres some mitigating features that I missed. As I said, I would gladly pay to not be the product.

this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2025
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