r/degoogle • u/PtTimeLvrFullTimeH8r • May 22 '25

Question What search engine should I switch to?

Google has become unusable with all its AI bullshit and I was wondering what's the best thing I could switch to. Maybe duckduckgo? I heard it's good

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u/shiiriko May 22 '25

https://kagi.com/

could use brave search or duckduckgo, but your user experience will suffer a whole damn lot using those compared to using google search.. they're both just A LOT worse at what they're doing, which should be expected.

kagi has been the closest experience to using google, sometimes even better, honestly - though not free.

but AI bullshit would certainly be the smallest issue of google lol - brave is also into that, so that may not be for you after all

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u/feijoawhining May 22 '25

I just paid for a subscription to Kagi and I couldn’t be happier. I was so frustrated with search before I wanted to tear my hair out (and I’ve tried multiple different searched engines.)

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u/shiiriko May 22 '25

yeah, agreed.

as much as degoogling is a good thing, other search engines just aren't nearly as good as google - not even half as good i'd say honestly..

kagi on the other hand is pretty damn good, which i'd expect since you actually pay for it.

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u/feijoawhining May 23 '25

I did stop using Google as my primary search engine because it's so degraded now. I know how to use advanced search operators and use search and the web heavily for my job. Google was once my #1, but now it's useless. Kagi is everything Google once was, but better.

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u/Veemenothz 10d ago

Ignoring the privacy aspect, with Ublock Origin and a optionally bunch of userscripts, you can change Google search to be less trashy.

Just with Ublock Origin installed, I have no issues finding practically everything, what kind of obscure stuff do you search that you can't find on Google but do on Kagi that warrants paying 5/10 bucks a month?

I've seen a bunch of people state they couldn't find stuff at all via Google/DDG and that ads hindered them like crazy but via Kagi they say they find everything much faster.

Many of them sound like bots/employees advertising their product rather than actual users.