I’ve spent money on things because I had to, I’ve spent money because I wanted to. I have rarely spent money on something because the idea just sounded good and been so consistently pleased with what I received for my investment. It’s not free, but Kagi is a small investment for a vastly improved (and customizable) search experience.
But how will you live with yourself when every search for library documentation or a programming language doesn't flood the first page with expertsexchange, w3schools, geeksforgeeks, favtutor, freecodecamp, and a pile of other tissue-thin content covered with popups?
I don't know how it works in 2024, but it used to work like this:
- Google would show the result, on Experts Exchange.
- You'd go there and the result would be cut off, and it'd tell you to pay to see it.
- Since Google required the results to actually be there somewhere, you could still scroll waaaay down past all the nonsense to the full text right at the bottom.