2y ago

Google Testing Ads Mixed Within Organic Search Results

www.seroundtable.com /google-ads-mixed-within-search-results-36266.html

Hi, do you have a minute? I would like to talk about https://kagi.com as the solution to all your problems.

Google will always try to squeeze more and more ads into your life, just like Microsoft and all the other big tech shitfarms.

While Kagi uses some Google search results, they are avoiding most of the SEO crap you get in Google while also giving you the option to completely remove or prioritize whatever sites you want in the search results.

It really makes the web feel very fresh again because you discover sites you never see on Google or Bing.

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label an ad post as an 'AD' next time in the title
- Just a happy customer. Do you ever feel excited about a product? That's how I feel about Kagi.
  It's a fantastic product, and the best search engine in a decade probably.
  
  I’m a happy Kagi convert, but yeah, this post is indistinguishable from an ad. A disclaimer and perhaps a rationale for posting would have helped.
Duck Duck Go already exists.
- It’s slowly getting worse though. Trust the market to ruin every good thing there is for profits.
  
  People have always been saying duckduckgo is bad or worse than google but it's always worked fine for me, and still does.
  
  Yep, the circle of the internet:
  10 Create new awesome service
  20 Get a lot of users
  30 Build a great community
  40 Start running ads to offset costs
  50 Get VC funding
  60 Add new features that enable increased monetizations 70 Make old core feature more annoying to use.
  80 Push users to new features
  90 Kill important old core feature
  100 Push old users out
  110 Increase monetization of the service
  120 See user numbers dwindle
  130 See new competitors start
  140 Count of existing userbase to keep service alive
  150 Slowly move into obscurity 160 Become a joke brand that is forever tarnished.
  170 Never really die
  180 goto 10
- It's not even comparable in quality... When I was using it, I had to resort to Google search every day to get good results.
  
  I won't lie, I was really dubious on the idea of paying for search, but after the demo I really came around and signed up for the year. Kagi results are far and away better than anything else on 90% of my queries. The only thing I miss is, when you use google in your searchbar, you can use it as a calculator. E.g. if I type "13 * 42", the top suggestion is "= 546", you don't even have to press enter.. So I got really used to using that as my default calculator. But Kagi just blanks you, so I've had to start keeping a desktop calculator open all the time lol
  
  In my experience the quality is just fine on duckduckgo.
  It's a bit different because they aren't tailoring based on all the data google has about you but it's still good.
Hey, do you hate ADS? Here's an AD!
Half the comments here are part of the sales pitch
- I think so too
Why does Kagi Search require an account? Kagi Search requires an account only because it is a paid service which requires an account for the transaction.
Note that Kagi does not collect any personal information for billing and that you can even use an anonymous payment card such as Privacy if you want to.
I'll pass ...
- While I agree that this post seems like a giant spammy ad, you don't have to provide anything personal to Kagi. You can pay with crypto rather than card - I paid using Monero via a swap service.
- ... and stick to presearch.com 🖖
  
  ...Somehow I don't trust a search engine whose front-and-center banner is for crypto trading
$120 a year and still limited to 3600 searches. Pretty sure I'm way above that number. I get they need to make up for lost as revenue but that's still too much for me to justify. I'll keep giving my data to a free engine.
- They recently made that level unlimited. That’s when I became a customer. Before that, I agree, not worth it.
kagi is so overrated, I don't get it. it's not even worth to set up email aliases and abuse their unlimited trials. searx is much better, if you really want to pay for something and need Ai stuff i recommended perplexity and nothing else.
- @birdcat @1984 Isn't searx just a google frontend?
- What? I tried searchx and it's not even close. We can compare query responses if you like... :)

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