It allows me to remove websites from the results. That’s already one of the main selling points for me.

You can do this within google as well, by the way.

Sure, but can you please give me an example since I only have so many searches and I've switched over to chatgpt for most of my former googling tasks.

Google has been inundated with SEO spam, and sometimes I want current things so LLMs don't work that well. One example is I was buying a ... wait, actually I was putting together some examples for you to compare Kagi (I am an unlimited subscriber) to Google directly, and none of them work now. My Google results for things like "best running shoes 2024" or things like that returned basically the same results as Kagi, pushing sites like Reddit and Wirecutter and REI blog and other known-good blogs to the top. Tried this in Private Browsing as well.

This is definitely a departure because when I subscribed to Kagi a couple months ago, all of my Google results for similar searches were SEO spam blogs filled with Amazon affiliate links that look like they had just sucked some Amazon reviews automatically into some poor facade to generate affiliate revenue.

These results were a surprise to me. Not sure what changed.

Yes, that's what I was getting too.

I imagine what changed is that Kagi started getting traction on site like here and some managers at google actually did something about it.

My own test "voynich illuminated manuscript" which used to give nothing but pintrest spam on google. Now there is just one result from pintrest in google and pretty much every result in Kagi is from pintrest.

There is an academic tab which seems interesting. I will give it a try later.