darreninthenet

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Cake day: April 4th, 2024


  • You sort of didn’t read my whole post and just looked at the last bit - I pay for excellent search results with Kagi, the fact it’s also private (because I pay) is a bonus. However for local searches, I find Kagi is a bit US centric, so a simple !g bang operator gives me a private search through Google which still excels at these types of things for anyway, who knows what Kagi has up their sleeves 🤷🏻‍♂️

    A VPN with Google would still give me rubbish Google search results and marginal privacy against Google’s algorithms (their fingerprinting likely knows it’s me anyway), and I’d need to keep switching it on and off to make full use of my 1gb/s cable internet speed.


  • When it came down to it I realised I use search many many many mores times a day than I do Netflix so it became a no brainer for me to use Kagi it’s funny my wife (who laughs at me for paying for search) was looking for a particular recipe yesterday and she was bouncing around Google unable to find exactly what she wanted I put it into Kagi and it was literally the first item returned. She still laughs at me 🤷🏻‍♂️

    What I will say is Kagi is pretty useless for local searching though, eg looking for a local business, Google is still much better at that but you can Google through Kagi to help protect privacy.