Privacy

I just started a free trial yesterday. They don't require payment info to try it, which impressed me some already. Off to a good start with searches so far too. This is the first non-google search I haven't been instantly disappointed in.

I'm happy to pay for it. Its far from perfect but its the best search engine I can find.

I like it a lot. I pay for it through work though. If I didn't, I'd probably still use their $5/mo plan - it is worth it to me to not have to deal with google.

DDG is fine for basic stuff but gets caught in the SEO trap.

It's not as good as Google from 20 years ago, but much better than Google today.

I didn't choose it for the privacy, I chose it because I wanted to actually get results for my searches.

Google gets me answers about 20% of the time,
Kagi about 50%,
and (generic - not Kagi) AI about 80% of the time.

The problem with AI as search is that the other 20% is when it will confidently give me wrong answers and waste hours of my time, so I guess Kagi is still useful to me.

I've been using it for a few years and honestly I can't go back. Nothing I've ever tried comes close. Heartily recommended.

Images search is so so, some with video but it often does enough of what I need and in case it doesn't I simply add g! in front of the search query and off i go to Google.

I have been for over a year now. I love it personally got my mom and wife on it too

Been a customer for a year and I love it.

Just do it if you can afford it. I’ve got friends roasting me for paying for search but we spend a little for life improvements everywhere. Even if Google wasn’t dog shit, the Kagi experience is just better.

How good is their video/image search with respect to adult content?

I've been pondering this as well. I've been running my own SearXNG instance for several years, and for most of that it was really nice. Recently I've been getting rate-limited/block/slowed by damn near every provider. I'm the only one who uses it, so no searches are that excessive. No amount of tweaking is helping all that much.

Kagi may be worth it just to avoid having to mess with that.

I am just in the end of my first month of subscription (the cheapest, $5 one). I love it! I mean, now Kagi proposes to either pay more or forward the request to ddg/google, but I'm ok with that because the new month starts tomorrow.
Well, it is a search, and you can search with it, and find stuff. Surprisingly, in 2010 that didn't sound so awesome, but now it does. Because it is so great not to scroll through all the "sponsored content" and AI bullshit.
Also, Google dropped most of the search syntax, so I couldn't use "minus words" or, in contrary, make it unable tp depp some words from the request. Kagi has an entire page with advanced search settings, so if you suddenly find something super specific, you will like it.
The free trial is 100 searches, so it's enough time to see if it's worth it - I think it is

I'm paying for it and will keep on paying.

I don't use any extra feature, I only care about one thing: the search just work.

I forget I'm using it, because I never have to switch search engine, literally last week a friend asked me "what is kagi?" and I couldn't understand why they were asking me that (it took me a bit)... I was searching for something we were talking about and he was watching my phone ;D

It's worth it. There's a lot of functionality available, although I've only used a fraction of its features so far.

Yes been using it over a year now. Never want to go back.

Kagi is great. I love it and they have so many great tools and features.