Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

I like how the search engine is the product instead of <em>me</em>.

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[vhoracek]

My primary search engine for the past near-decade has been Ecosia. I am fully aware that the results are coming from Bing, but so far the experience has been superior to Google and on par with DDG in maybe 98 % of cases.

I'm not at all keen on anything that blends in any kind of AI "feature", regardless of whether it's optional or not.

 

[vhoracek]

if it’s truly optional (and can be turned off) why do you care? No company at this point won’t have it or some corporate PHB is going to ding them as behind the times. But as long asi can flip it off permanently, then at least for me it doesn’t have AI slop…

Because I'm getting tired of having to replace tools that are part of my habitual suite and are getting enshittified by features that begin as optional, but not long after the opt-out toggle disappears; see also nearly every subscription service there is.