Love kagi. The first time I got the "your payment was successful" notification I felt like I'd never get that much value out of it. But now, a few months later, I feel like I could never go back.

Don't they use Google for their results? I'd imagine they'd run into the same issues the article is pointing out.

No? At least not like you are implying. Kagi queries multiple data sources and synthesizes results. This means Google’s failure to index does not impact Kagi in the same way as it would DDG (with Bing).

I'm also a huge fan of Kagi. I've been a paying user since they launched the paying subscription. Really happy with it!

Though a subscriber myself, Kagi doesn't really add results, does it? It merely weeds out the trash for you. So you can get to the bottom of search results.

Just being able to block spammy Stack Overflow clones from ever appearing in the results is worth the price of admission for me.

Here is another, just launched: https://greppr.org/

Looks promising, though I noticed that it doesn't encode queries properly when searching. For example, if you go to the homepage and search for "../robots.txt", you'll be redirected to the site's own robots.txt file

Thank you kindly for testing, I'll need to fix that one.

Checking this out, thanks mate.