Comment by pants2
1 year ago
Like many of you I use HN as a primary social network and Kagi as my search engine, etc. - but the relative unpopularity of these things shows that most users seem to be OK with their product getting enshittified. In fact, almost every time I tell someone I pay $10/mo for my search engine they look at me like I'm an idiot. "But Google is free."
I think Kagi is one of those things that needs to "just exist" for awhile, and then suddenly you'll be hearing about it from everywhere. Like a hipster band that suddenly gets used in an Apple commercial and becomes a #1 hit.
I used kagi for a while, but it honestly just didn't return great results. Maybe I'll try it out again and see if it's gotten any better...
Google is still a useful search engine for google/youtube/etc.