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The Man Who Destroyed Google Search
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this post was submitted on 06 May 2024
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Read this a week or so ago and it's a fantastic summarization of the core problem. I almost never use Google search anymore. I go between DuckDuckGo and Perplexity.
I've tried to use DDG for a few weeks now, and I find it gets worse the more specific I search.
For general things, it's fine. But if I'm looking for an installation tutorial for a certain kind of plumbing hardware, it struggles to show me anything but brand and retail pages.
I started using Kagi. Yeah, I have to pay for it. But we're paying for Google too, kagi is just more honest about how.
Can I use kagi as a default search for my browser?
I'm trying to use Firefox on desktop and mobile more.
Here you go: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.html
Yep!
I use it on FF mobile and desktop all the time, for the last 6 months or so. It is great.
They have a browser plug-in. I use it on Firefox on my desktop and on my Android phone. My uses it on Chrome on both as well.
On Firefox I think you have to right click on the address bar while the website is open to register a new search engine?