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I've heard good things about Kagi, but I can't justify the cost (especially as its USD)
I pay for it, it's worth every penny.
@irasponsible I am on month 2 of paying for Kagi, and I am not sure it's worth it at the current price point. I enjoy the privacy and speed, but not 10 dollars a month enjoy.
even at US$5 a month, I don't know. I feel like most searches I do are just to get to the website I already know the name of, and I'd blow through 300 pretty fast.
I was a Neeva user. It was good, but no better than DDG. Google is so bad these days that it isn't much better than DDG, aside from regional things
I just use DDG, and I was told in a different post that it fetches results through Bing.
Much like what you said, Google is better than other engines with regional results being a non-US person.
Google is still the GOAT for very specific questions. Like "docker network bridge partial packet loss" , throw it into bing/dfg/qwang and you just end up with "what is a network bridge in docker"
https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=docker+network+bridge+partial+packet+loss&ia=qa
looks good to me, with the first result being from StackOverflow.
Results from StackOverflow is easy mode, what makes Google special is that it digs deep into every niche forum out there, it's search index is far bigger and more up to date than anything else.
Basically, when you don't find something on Google, there is a good chance there is nothing out there to answer your question. Meanwhile if you don't find something on Bing (which is behind most alternative search engines), there is a good chance you'll find results on Google.
That's really the crux of it, there isn't really anything the alternatives are better at, they are just Google-clones that perform worse, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. There is almost nothing that sets them apart.