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I dumped Google for Kagi


Enough is enough: I’ve jettisoned Google in favor of a search engine that doesn’t treat me like a product.

You don't have to give perpetual ownership of your mind-palace to a pile of optioned-out tech bros in sleeveless Patagonia vests while you are endlessly subjected to amateur AI Rorschach tests every time you search for "pierogis near me." For now, Firefox continues to serve me well, with Brave as a fallback for working with Google Docs and other tools I can't avoid and that treat non-Chromium browsers like second-class citizens. Unfortunately, the thing that's stopping me from being completely effusive in my praise is that Kagi is exhibiting a disappointing amount of "keeping-up-with-the-Joneses" by rolling out a big 'ol pile of (optional, so far) AI-enabled search features.

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