I tried it just now and compared the same search terms on Kagi and Qwant.

Kagi gave me what I was looking for as the top result (technical documentation)

Qwant gave me an ad as the top result and an AI summary as the next result. Only after both of those did I get the result I wanted (below the fold).

I’d rather just pay for a search engine that I don’t have to install additional stuff to fix.

Have you tried Qwant? I started using it last spring and I've had no problems so far.

Just cancelled my subscription and then deployed a Degoog container. Let's see how it goes...

Yea, it's a sucky situation. At least they're not actively investing into Yandex, it's just a source (like Google) for the search results. Though since it's a paid service, the most likely way to make em stop is to express your displeasure and vote with your wallet, and if enough people do that then it'll cost less to stop using Yandex than it does to ignore unhappy (potential) customers

Customer for over a year now and I don’t love this, but I feel like Kagi sits at the intersection of private enough and high performing enough. I tried a lot of the other suggestions for engines before switching and Kagi gave the best results from my testing.

I'm a long time Kagi subscriber, this is not just to criticize, I would like to have other people's opinions.

Financing Yandex never sat right with me.
Now with the recent attacks on Yandex servers and the perceived decrease in activity of far right accounts I'm even more wary about paying for Kagi. I'm otherwise very happy with the service provided, and it will be difficult not to rely on it anymore.

I'm still waiting for a clearer picture. It might be misinformation.

There are however reports that MAGA, Afd, Reform UK and Musk posts media presence and public engagement has dropped.

Eyebrows Raise When Elon Musk’s Twitter Engagement Shrivels After Destruction of Russian Data Centers

EXCLUSIVE: Reform figures see social media engagement drop after strikes on Russia data centres

MAGA supporters vanish from White House X posts after Ukraine strikes on data centers take out Russian bots

Ukraine Struck Yandex Data Centers, Russian Bots Went Silent—Now Questions Are Mounting

« C’est révélateur » : Kiev détruit des data centers russes, l’activité de bots pro-Trump et pro-AfD s’effondre sur les réseaux sociaux

$96 a year just for translation seems like a lot.

I switched to have kagi always open a new tab when clicking on links. that resolved pretty much any issue I ever had with rationing. I switched relatively soon after to unlimited, but not because I needed more, but because they updated the plan pricing so I just got it automatically. If you have it you use it pretty much.

Yeah, unfortunately. It wasn't long before it became necessary for me to upgrade my plan. I'm now on the Professional plan as a single user.

So, will this be a separate, stand-alone app (i.e. not an option within the search app)?

WebKit.. yuck. Yeah I'll try it out