Exploring alternatives to Google search

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Read David Sparks article about Kagi search. I’m Still Digging Kagi - MacSparky

I have been using Perplexity as an alternative to Google search. I read about claims that Perplexity has been web crawling sites without permission, but have enjoyed the experience and results.

My goals are:

  1. Avoid ad driven search with accurate results.
  2. Ability to take advantage of AI to some extent to enhance search results, realizing we are in beginning innings of AI.
  3. Privacy of search topics
  4. Free or low cost-though I wonder if possible if not ad driven
  5. Speed of results
  6. Ability to use with VPN service to enhance privacy.
    Thoughts?

Thanks for your input.
GM

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Raycast has an extension for this as well.

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I’ve been using Kagi since it launched and no longer use any other search engine.
Well worth it.