Comment by pfist
15 hours ago
I am rooting for Kagi here, and I applaud their transparency on such matters. It is quite enlightening for someone like me who understands technology but knows little about the inner workings of search.
It remains to be seen how or if the remedies will be enforced, and, of course, how Google will choose to comply with them. I am not optimistic, but at least there is some hope.
As an aside: The 1998 white paper by Brin and Page is remarkable to read knowing what Google has become.
I'm rooting for Kagi solely because the block feature. It's amazing to be able to block undeservedly SEO'd garbage sites from future search results.
Blocking, pinning and the general quality.
I’d pay a more if I could opt out of Yandex, and if it integrated properly with iOS (Apples fault).
fyi: DuckDuckGo has blocking now, too. I use it extensively to do away with all the clone sites of Stack Exchange, GitHub etc
All without using an account, saved locally in the browser.
Oh nice, that's good to know. Yes, those clones sites are also instantly on my block list, as well as Userbenchmark, sites with AI-generated "info" pages (if I want AI answers, I'll just ask ChatGPT), sites that won't work without third-part cookies, low-quality game guide sites that were evidently made for users to visit, but not actually to help them, etc.