Autocorrect hates me, I am sorry.

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  • DDG uses Bing’s index I believe, so they’re just reranking results for you + proxying queries. The big indexes are generally low quality and DDG can show you only results from them. Kagi seems to train theirs on small web and uses user rankings to adjust, which helps a lot.

    They are not without issues, they’ve been pushing for open indexing as indexing is getting harder due to AI scrapers. Cloudflare and Reddit for example make it much harder now (Reddit has an exclusivity deal with Google), but I do get results from both.


  • I do not regret it.

    I don’t really use the bangs to use Google instead like I did on duck duck go. I think I’ve used them a few times in a year, and heat when I was deep into not finding something which I continued to not find on google.

    I haven’t had to rerank sites in a while

    You can get the AI answers if you append a question mark to your query, or you can use !ki to use the AI researcher tool. It’s all opt in. They’ll also tell you how much of your AI budget you’ve used.

    Under the good Kagi is an “AI” search engine using BERT architecture, which is similar to Google (it takes your natural language question and searches that, instead of classical keyword based search). That doesn’t mean it doesn’t work or doesn’t respect keywords, but sometimes you do have to quote keyword groups to enforce them.

    I’m pretty sure their index is built at a higher quality than Google who are trying to answer every low quality query and maximize metrics.