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The man who killed Google Search?

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1884 points elorant | 3 comments | 23 Apr 24 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 1.386s | source
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rrrix1 ◴[23 Apr 24 18:30 UTC] No.40135422[source]▶
It's April 23rd, 2024, and I am still looking for a good, reliable, honest and simple search engine.

All I want to do is search.

No AI.

No ads.

No shopping.

Please don't "Answer my question." I enjoy doing my own original research, thanks.

I'm entirely willing - wanting even - to pay for it.

Currently Kagi has my $, but I'm saddened and frustrated that they're not even focused on Search, they're focused on AI[1] and t-shirts.

Amazingly, in 2024, there is still a market opportunity for a good search engine.

It can't really just be me, can it?

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22kagi%22+%22ai%22

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1. spaceman_2020 ◴[23 Apr 24 19:02 UTC] No.40135829[source]▶
I just want a search engine that prioritizes small sites again

I just don’t want to see another webmd fluff article when I search for a medical query or some gigantic news site’s affiliate section when I search for a product

Half my searches have site:reddit.com appended to them

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2. freediver ◴[24 Apr 24 03:26 UTC] No.40140185[source]▶
That is exactly what Kagi does. Kagi Small Web [1] was initiated to surface small personal websites in search engines again.

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/small-web

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3. faeriechangling ◴[24 Apr 24 10:36 UTC] No.40142700[source]▶
I definitely noticed and it's a huge improvement. Shame google doesn't make any money from these sites so they won't ever bother promoting them.