Search Is Broken
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I was listening to Late Night Linux 390 during my evening walking with the pooches tonight, and they were talking about (among other things) Kagi search.
I've tried Kagi myself, but ultimately cancelled my subscription as I didn't really see the point in paying for it when I could get similar results with DuckDuckGo.
This isn't because DDG or Kagi are inherently bad, it's because no matter which service you use, the web has been SEO'd to within an inch of its life, so we're fucked either way. That's why I stopped using Kagi as I didn't see the point in paying $10/month for a service that can't fix the web despite having some interesting options to help filter the noise.
What I do instead
What I've started doing instead is to use DDG for simple queries that I can quickly and easily get the answer to. For anything more complex, I go to my LLM of choice (currently Gemini) and I ask the question there.
This is because it saves me a tonne of time sifting through all the SEO crap, and I can ask follow up questions too. Win/win.
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