I mean sure, if you ignore the first 20 or so relevant links before that, you’re right, that one does show up when searching for monkey (proof)
You can add literally any other word to the search and that one result disappears. Even bear monkey. Regardless of the fact that no one searches for just the word monkey, I find Kagi’s rankings consistently prioritize more quality and informative content.
Comparing to other search engines, Google is obsessed with the movie The Monkey, Bing really wants you to watch Monkey Baby Bon Bon live what looks like a nightmare life, Brave gives an OK mix of content, still with a The Monkey focus, and Kagi gives you a really solid mix of results across the monkey spectrum for such a vague query (plus one whole link to an article about polar bears).
If the polar bear result specifically bothers you, you can report it to Kagi and I’m sure they’ll fix it. I’m still happy with my choice though.
Edit: decided to check DDG as well - I’d written it off in my head as just Bing, but the results were slightly different - the Monkey Bon Bon nightmare fuel was pretty significantly demoted, and for better or worse, DDG was blissfully unaware of the movie The Monkey. Not a bad result overall.
I know it’s a controversial take around these parts, but I’ve fallen in love with Kagi.
If I had to rank search engines by results, in my opinion/experience:
Kagi > Brave > Startpage/Google > DDG/Ecosia/Bing
Kagi/Brave/Startpage/DDG all offer privacy to some degree. I haven’t really fucked with SearXNG though I’m sure its awesome.
I got an article about polar bears as 7th result for the search “Monkey”. Great…
I mean sure, if you ignore the first 20 or so relevant links before that, you’re right, that one does show up when searching for
monkey(proof)You can add literally any other word to the search and that one result disappears. Even
bear monkey. Regardless of the fact that no one searches for just the wordmonkey, I find Kagi’s rankings consistently prioritize more quality and informative content.Comparing to other search engines, Google is obsessed with the movie The Monkey, Bing really wants you to watch Monkey Baby Bon Bon live what looks like a nightmare life, Brave gives an OK mix of content, still with a The Monkey focus, and Kagi gives you a really solid mix of results across the
monkeyspectrum for such a vague query (plus one whole link to an article about polar bears).If the polar bear result specifically bothers you, you can report it to Kagi and I’m sure they’ll fix it. I’m still happy with my choice though.
Edit: decided to check DDG as well - I’d written it off in my head as just Bing, but the results were slightly different - the Monkey Bon Bon nightmare fuel was pretty significantly demoted, and for better or worse, DDG was blissfully unaware of the movie The Monkey. Not a bad result overall.
I’ve been disappointed by many and don’t trust commercial space.
Dig around and you will find no so pleasant information on DDG and Kagi. I suspect same is true for any business backed search.
I used both and eventually run into negative information, which made me reconsider both. I started with DDG, then Kagi.
It is SearXNG all the way for me now and there are no regrets so far. Other post on it is the best option.