r/privacy • u/Stardread1997 • 22h ago

question Search providers

Good afternoon! I am requesting the opinion of those who know more than I about search engines. Kagi specifically. Would you recommend this search engine or try for something else? Any info and advise appreciated. 👍

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u/supermannman 22h ago

I use ecosia and mainly starpage

I used to us ddg, but not much lately

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u/Muero 22h ago

I’ve used Kagi since the month it went live, and I love it. Is there anything specific you want to know about it?

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u/Stardread1997 21h ago

Mostly anything privacy related. Also if the company behind Kagi has a good reputation. I gleem what I can from online reviews, but ironically reddit has been more helpful in this area. Haha. To summarize, any complaints or concerns? Any opinions?

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u/Muero 8h ago

For privacy, are you aware of Kagi Privacy Pass? It allows you to use Kagi with a paid subscription without revealing your identity to Kagi when you use it. I use Kagi in normal mode, without Privacy Pass, but I think it's neat they're thinking about features like this that I've never seen before. I recommend that you read their privacy page if you want to know about their overall approach to privacy. There's a lot there.

The only complaint I have is that I can't set it as the default search engine in Safari, since I mainly use Apple products. Kagi has a Safari extension that detects search engine URLs and redirects them to Kagi, so it ends up having a similar effect. But every once in a while a search isn't caught by the extension, and I see DuckDuckGo search results instead. If that happens, I just refresh the page and the extension will correctly point it to Kagi instead, so not a big deal, but a minor annoyance. And the annoyance is really with Apple, for not allowing as much freedom with search engine selection as Firefox or Chrome.

But I really like Kagi. It has lots of cool features like blocking results from certain sites, always including a link to the archive.org Web Archive, constant product improvements with changelogs, and on and on.