I’m confused about Gmail listed as a search engine. Google is the search engine, as I understand it, and Gmail is a mail client. Or you could put Alphabet I guess.
I like this graphic format you're using. The information is presented clearly and succinctly; as a summary graphic, it's quite nice that you limit the information density. Viewers can use it as a jumping off point for further research.
Someone commented on a repost of this guide: "Missing stract.com, it’s like old school google before the ads. A little slow to update to latest web crawl, but much better content returned"
This is a huge thing to note. Kagi works well but if you set it as your default search engine and use the internet like a normal person that goes online a lot you’ll burn through 100 searches in like 2 days. 300 searches is $5 and unlimited is $10 iirc, though it’s less if you pay yearly. It also includes ai stuff
I just use a combo of mojeek and ecosia. Mojeek is more private. Ecosia is privacy oriented but searches are still passed to microsoft, though with most (but not all) identifiers stripped out
This was helpful, but I wonder if years a way to indicate where some of the engines primarily source their results? Duckduckgo uses Bing by default (although you can search with Google via the !g prefix), I'm not sure about the others?
Have to disagree there. Kagi is an excellent alternative and it's own index is getting better by the day. Qwant is also becoming a more prominent player and looks to be getting more support from EU
and fair play about kagi. Like, it’s usable and frequently actually works, which is more than I can say for everything else. It’s still not where a usable search engine should be but it doesn’t happen overnight and is the diamond in an otherwise repugnant turd.