# Tell me about Kagi search

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-kagi-search/1016571
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 3, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-kagi-search/1016571 "2025-04-03T14:24:21Z")
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> [@xtenkfarpl](#):
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> _REALLY_?? Good Lord, what is the world coming to?
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> I did some detailed experiments when ChatGPT came out […]

There’s a lot of other topics about this already (see [1](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-regular-things-can-ai-currently-be-used-for/1015523/38), [2](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-pushing-ai-artificial-intelligence-so-hard/1013480/28), [3](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-have-you-used-ai-deliberately/1004124), [4](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irl-how-do-you-use-ai/1012811/73), [5](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-page-in-the-book-of-ai-evolution-is-here-powered-by-gpt-3-5-and-i-am-very-nay-extremely-impressed/975945/6), and [more in the “AI” tag](https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/ai)), so I don’t want to hijack this one. Happy to discuss more in any of the other topics, though!

> [@FordPrefect](#):
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> FYI, DuckDuckGo uses Bing in the background.

While I don’t have the exact stats to prove it (I don’t know what % of Kagi’s results come from their own index vs Marginalia’s, for example), it _feels_ sufficiently different to me to qualify as its own search engine instead of “just another aggregator”.

And their customization options and lack of ads make them pretty unique, search sources notwithstanding. It’s a degree of personalization that no other engine, as far as I know, offers. I block a few dozen spam domains, deprioritize a few others, and prioritize a few usually-good sources, and that makes a pretty big difference in result quality (though you can accomplish similar with Google and uBlacklist).

Kagi can then use those [raise/lower/block signals in aggregate](https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard) to refine their default results. (Seems like its users really, _really_ hate Pinterest and strongly dislike junk news sites.)

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