This. For me, it feels wrong entering my name and credit card details to be able to have a more private search experience. Especially since alternatives like SearX or You.com are at least as good as Kagi and don't have such requirements.

Thanks. Very helpful! We will work on the reflow issues and visual app ranking, etc.

Yea, the mona lisa example shows the complexity of ranking. All other search engines (outside Google and Bing) just take ranking from those two. We're building our own but that comes with some early bugs.

If you try some coding searches you'll see how much we care about this target audience in the actual product. Not sure any other search engine has this many useful features for developers?

[1] https://code.you.com/search?q=revert+a+git+commit

[2] https://code.you.com/search?q=onnxruntime+segfault

[3] https://code.you.com/search?q=pytorch+isnan

[4] https://code.you.com/search?q=huggingface+transformers

[5] https://code.you.com/search?q=git+rebase+interactive

[6] https://code.you.com/search?q=json+validator

[7] https://code.you.com/search?q=show+hn

[8] https://code.you.com/search?q=attention+is+all+you+need

[9] https://code.you.com/search?q=pytorch+examples

First I've heard of you.com...that domain must have cost a pretty penny.

If you read DDG TOS (1) you'll see that they save your queries and are being somewhat disengunous about doing so (half-buried half-way down the page there's this gem):

"We also save searches, but again, not in a personally identifiable way, as we do not store IP addresses or unique User agent strings. We use aggregate, non-personal search data to improve things like misspellings."

I wonder how many folks that use DDG know this is taking place (or even bothered to read that far down the TOS).

(1) https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

Google Chrome —> Brave

Google Search —> you.com

Gmail —> ProtonMail

Google Docs —> Notion