I used this quite frequently but since Google “”““improved””“” it last year (there was a popular HN post complaining about this) it doesn’t work anymore. Search for a domain name with quotation marks for example just recombines the contents of the domain and returns a bunch of unrelated content completely cluttering what I am looking for. Until last year it used to return no search results if there weren’t any exact matches, which is the whole point.

Does someone have a work around for this phenomenal Google decision?


There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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    1 year ago

    Erm, why is it so extremely expensive? $60 a year and I get 300 searches a month? If you are researching something for a project you might use 300 searches in a couple of days.

    It’s a cool concept, but they charge a fortune and their privacy statements are basically, just trust us bro.

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        1 year ago

        I understand they cost money, but it really seems like an expensive service, I can understand high operating costs, but 1.5 cents a search is pretty high when you are searching stuff up like 25 times a day. It’s just so expensive when I can go with a non profit like ecosia and get a free search engine that also respects my privacy. And on top of that it plants trees. I imagine kagi has better results but I just can’t see it being worth it.