Yes, its results are far better than Google’s. Google results are full of SEO spam, marketing pages, etc. Kagi tends to surface official documentation, blog posts, online discussion/Q&A. Overall, it does a very good job highlighting “real” content rather than “artificial” content. Plus, you can personalize it by boosting/downranking/blocking sites, creating regex rewrite rules on URLs, etc.

I think it is better most of the time because:

- it combines the top 10 this or that list into listicles that are aggregated into their own section and I find to often be full of spam - it lets you block or deprioritize any site you want like quora, medium, Forbes, that often give me useless or incorrect info or are just their to boost so - it lets you prioritize sites you like in the search ranking - it doesn’t have blocked or censored keywords - it lets you specify by date or time quickly and easily which I find to be beneficial and google seems to hide it constantly move around in news

It’s weaker for like looking up a phone number or hours for a local eatery, but in general I like it better.

For me, it's substantially better.

The results are good by default. But you can change the ranking of sites in your results, so every search is custom to you.

I pin documentation sites like MDN and pkg.go.dev and penalize SEO span sites.

My results are custom to me and my workflows, it's pretty hard to go back at this point.

Kagi is one of the stickiest subscription services I have.

In my experience it's far, far better than google search. The ability to boost some domains and block others is invaluable.

But also, because you're the customer not the product, you don't have to contend with Google's ad-driven search results and their privacy violating bs. Totally worth the money.

(Kagi user since the beta, paying user since they started offering subscriptions.)

google search is only good if you want to know "what the corporate hive mind thinks what their idea of an average consumer should think about it"

Not GP, but from my end- a big yes! Also better than DDG, which is better than Google nowadays. I also use phind and code.you.com.