There was a time when for every new search engine that came out after about my first five searches, I was like:
Nah, that isn't gonna cut it.
Then DuckDuckGo came along and I immediately felt that it was going to be good enough for me - and it has been for many years and still is.
Now with Kagi and Yep it is the first time after DuckDuckGo that I feel the same. Playing around with both of them for a while, I think they'd be both good enough[1] for my purposes.
I'm happy with DuckDuckGo and it has almost[2] completely replaced Google for me, but I'm also relieved that now we seem to have viable alternatives for the first time now. I hope more are coming.
[1] When it comes to the quality of the results, both are on par in my opinion. What differentiates Yep from its competitors is that it is based on an independent index, which I think makes it interesting from a technological standpoint. I won't comment on their respective business models, because I have not thought much about that...
Nah, that isn't gonna cut it.
Then DuckDuckGo came along and I immediately felt that it was going to be good enough for me - and it has been for many years and still is.
Now with Kagi and Yep it is the first time after DuckDuckGo that I feel the same. Playing around with both of them for a while, I think they'd be both good enough[1] for my purposes.
I'm happy with DuckDuckGo and it has almost[2] completely replaced Google for me, but I'm also relieved that now we seem to have viable alternatives for the first time now. I hope more are coming.
[1] When it comes to the quality of the results, both are on par in my opinion. What differentiates Yep from its competitors is that it is based on an independent index, which I think makes it interesting from a technological standpoint. I won't comment on their respective business models, because I have not thought much about that...
[2]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19947588
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040833