> What makes you think you can do better than a company with over 20 years experience, 10s of 1000s of engineers working on their product?
I've tested it since December.
What made them think they could do it I don't know but they already outclass Google by a wide margin.
The shortest and most precise explanation I can give is:
Kagi is to mainstream search engines today what Google was to mainstream search engines 20 years ago.
And that maybe settles your question too?
> No-one has even come _close_ to taking a dent out of Google in the last 20 years.
Unluckily for power users (and maybe ordinary users) and luckily for would-be Google competitors Google has rested on their laurels, told everyone the problem was webspam while their quality declined down the the levels of earlier search engines. Edit: Kagi shows the problem is not webspam but Googles insistence on 1.) not letting people block domains 2.) not respecting peoples queries.
Competing with Google a decade ago would be hard.
DDG still isn't anywhere near peak Google quality and yet they've seen (actual) exponential growth for years. That wouldn't have happened if Google still was leagues ahead.
Until December I started in DDG and used !g to see if Google had a different result that was better. Often it did not.
Since December I have used Google twice to verify something from Kagi or to look up something Kagi couldn't find (I'll try to get a bug report underway freediver, I just need to recreate using non personal data.)
I've tested it since December.
What made them think they could do it I don't know but they already outclass Google by a wide margin.
The shortest and most precise explanation I can give is:
Kagi is to mainstream search engines today what Google was to mainstream search engines 20 years ago.
And that maybe settles your question too?
> No-one has even come _close_ to taking a dent out of Google in the last 20 years.
Unluckily for power users (and maybe ordinary users) and luckily for would-be Google competitors Google has rested on their laurels, told everyone the problem was webspam while their quality declined down the the levels of earlier search engines. Edit: Kagi shows the problem is not webspam but Googles insistence on 1.) not letting people block domains 2.) not respecting peoples queries.
Competing with Google a decade ago would be hard.
DDG still isn't anywhere near peak Google quality and yet they've seen (actual) exponential growth for years. That wouldn't have happened if Google still was leagues ahead.
Until December I started in DDG and used !g to see if Google had a different result that was better. Often it did not.
Since December I have used Google twice to verify something from Kagi or to look up something Kagi couldn't find (I'll try to get a bug report underway freediver, I just need to recreate using non personal data.)