Since Google makes money through advertising, its primary incentive is to boost revenue by showing you better ads.
Of late, this has resulted in a noticeable decline in the quality of my search results.
That brought me to the idea of using a paid search engine instead of Google.
What is Kagi?
Kagi is a paid search engine developed by the people behind theOrion net online gate.
Is it worth it to pay for a search engine?
Kagi has lots of useful features (and no ads) that make it worth the price to me.
I hope that Kagi is able to continue to do so in the long run.
The search engine has kept it opt-in, which is great to see.
If you use Kagi, you won’t encounter AI unless you manually trigger it.
To do this, just add a question mark to your search query.
This will show an AI answer above the search results.
Now, go toSearch > AIand enableExclude AI generated images.
you’re able to read more about how Kagi implements AI image filtersin its documentation.
First, you might replace clickbait thumbnails with screenshots from the actual video.
Second, you’re able to change titles to lower case or sentence case.
To enable these features, go toKagi prefs > Search > General.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and you’ll seeVideo Search controls.
tap the drop-down menus next to the two options here and select what you need.
Each of these lenses lets you filter out unwanted results by focusing only on some sites.
This allows you to surface some hidden gems that you may not otherwise find.
This feature also lets you see specific domains less, or block them entirely.
To tweak this, simply go toKagi prefs > Search > Personalized Results > Add Domains.
Learning a few of these can speed up your workflow significantly, and I highly recommend doing so.
I really like using !bang operators, which allow you to perform searches faster.
For instance, it’s possible for you to append!vto any search term to look for videos.
Similarly,!idoes an image search,!ndoes a news search, and so on.
This feature is underKagi options > Search > Advanced > Redirects.
It’s worth going through Kagi’sRedirects support pageto learn how to make the most of them.
