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> In almost all cases, the search results are as good as or better than Google

Could you (or someone) share some specific search terms that you feel are better than Google? I've tried Kagi a few times and felt no significant difference in the results.

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Try anything related to visas. "us esta", "canada eta".

On Kagi, the official government site is always the first result. On Google, it's buried beneath an avalanche of scammy lookalike services that pay for ads and SEO.

The government sites are the first result for both searches on Google for me.

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You probably have an adblocker running. I also did this test with ‘Canada eta’ and got the expected result on top. But when I reloaded the page without my content blockers, the official Canadian website was more than 1.5 iPad screen scrolls down.

> You probably have an adblocker running.

Yeah, of course. Anyone with a brain does. But "Kagi doesn't have ads" is a different statement than "Kagi's results are better than Google's." I've never seen anyone actually give a search term that Kagi does better at.

Isn’t a lack of adverts a prime reasons ‘Kagi’s results are better than Google’s’? I hear the odd person say that they like the adverts but it’s hard to believe that’s a plus for the bulk of users.

As mentioned, an ad blocker fixes that, too. Ads aside, the actual search results don't seem to be any different.

Block lists remove a lot of crap and pinned sources add things I want.

You may tried Kagi, but after a week or so of Kagi it was awful going back to Google (plus a blocker).

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