I quite liked Kahi when I tried it, but it lacked several Google features that truly make is easier to use. For example on google I can search for a restaurant, and even if it has a common name, it will find the one that is the most relevant to me, and it will also show me a phone number, reviews and pictures etc. I also found that mixed language results are kinda bad, like when searching for something in a language, and then something else in another language, it really prefers having a single language set in the settings. For that, I felt it was a bit expensive for also taking a feature cut. So I went back to google. Luckily in Canada we don’t have the AI search summary bullshit yet so there’s that.
For example on google I can search for a restaurant, and even if it has a common name, it will find the one that is the most relevant to me,
This is what tracking helps with. Google knows roughly where you live (or exactly where you live if you have your home saved in Google Maps) and uses this data as part of Google search.
One of the main benefits of other search engines is that they don’t track you, but as a result, the results aren’t customized for you.
Not like they don’t have my address: I paid for it with my credit/debit card. They could also make it an opt in feature that customizes the results to be actually more relevant to ME (instead of more relevant to Googles interests). But in the end I still think 10$ a month for a sub par experience is too hard to swallow for me, especially because I found it to load quite a bit slower than Google or duckduckgo. I’m very picky with subscriptions and only subscribe when I feel I am not getting ripped off, like Bitwarden or Proton
I quite liked Kahi when I tried it, but it lacked several Google features that truly make is easier to use. For example on google I can search for a restaurant, and even if it has a common name, it will find the one that is the most relevant to me, and it will also show me a phone number, reviews and pictures etc. I also found that mixed language results are kinda bad, like when searching for something in a language, and then something else in another language, it really prefers having a single language set in the settings. For that, I felt it was a bit expensive for also taking a feature cut. So I went back to google. Luckily in Canada we don’t have the AI search summary bullshit yet so there’s that.
This is what tracking helps with. Google knows roughly where you live (or exactly where you live if you have your home saved in Google Maps) and uses this data as part of Google search.
One of the main benefits of other search engines is that they don’t track you, but as a result, the results aren’t customized for you.
Not like they don’t have my address: I paid for it with my credit/debit card. They could also make it an opt in feature that customizes the results to be actually more relevant to ME (instead of more relevant to Googles interests). But in the end I still think 10$ a month for a sub par experience is too hard to swallow for me, especially because I found it to load quite a bit slower than Google or duckduckgo. I’m very picky with subscriptions and only subscribe when I feel I am not getting ripped off, like Bitwarden or Proton
Pretty cool.