I do like to hear a founder of a still developing startup describe their current results as “decently well” … it speaks volumes about what their aim is and how they assess their current position trying to reach those goals. If you thought it wasn’t possible you wouldn’t be trying but you know you aren’t there yet.

Thanks for being honest like this. I really should get around to trying Kagi … I think I’m just still in the current habit inertia between DDG and Google

Great to hear from someone fighting the good fight! In your opinion, is the internet just spammy now, or is something else going on?

Internet is extremly spammy and it is a result of ad-based monetization which provides incentive for the spam to be created. Luckilly an efficient mechanism to detect most such spam is to measure number of ads on a site and then downrank such results, which is what we do.

thanks for building Kagi <3 – it's expensive but worth it imo