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Comment by deelly | Hacker News Reader

Could you show some examples of search results?

I have been trying Kagi for a few months and have found it better than Google in most cases, though not a silver bullet.

Here are the queries from the original article in Kagi:

    how to fix a flat tire

Top result:

https://www.thepearlsource.com/blog/facts-about-pearls/how-a...

I get useful results from google for the same query

First result is

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/cars-trucks/how-t...

2nd, 3rd, and 4th resultsa are videos

5th is wikihow (which by the way IMO is often a really bad site. There is lots of junk content on wikihow)

I got the wikihow as the second result. The top one was this:

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/cars-trucks/how-t...

Which is equally good.

These top results are identical to the results I'm getting from metager.org which is just a meta search engine. Both those results came from Bing in the case of metager

I remember these from yesterday:

    1. Quotes on abstraction
    2. How does jpeg represent images

Google gave me bunch of spam, but Kagi gave me sites I could actually learn from.

In case of code.you.com vs. Google: 1. Write a recursive max function for lists in Scala

Not much different from Google, but surely a search dedicated for code only feels better.

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