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