Comment by hagbard_c

You have not been able to trust any single search engine for a long time since all of them have their biases, their quirks, their blind sides, their errors and other reasons for not relying on them as sole search engine. This also goes for Kagi which so many around here tend to push with the same fervour they push Apple. Just because you pay for something does not make it good, just because you paid more than the person next to you does not mean you get the better product.

What then, you ask? Well, that is for you to decide. Choose a few search engines - real ones which create their own index, not only re-badged versions of Google or Bing - and use those in a round-robin schedule or search whatever you want in all of them. Use a meta-search engine like SearxNG [1] which submits your query to a select set of engines and shows the results from all in a single page (this is what I have been using for many years). Install YaCy [2] and create your own index for sites you frequent. Pick and choose, don't rely on a single source. This has been true for as long as web search engines exist.

[1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng

[2] https://yacy.net/