Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google DeepMind, Gemini, and all AI products at Google, said Google AI Mode will be the default for Google Search "soon." He said this after Google made google.com/ai go directly to AI Mode's interface on Friday afternoon.
I use Kagi as my daily driver. If I have too choose a free search engine, I would use Qwant, Startpage or Ecosia.
I’ve heard good things about Kagi but I don’t know that I want to pay for it. Is it a big upgrade on Ecosia?
My motto is: If it’s free, you pay with your data. And I really have trust in Kagi.
Ecosia, Startpage, Qwant, DDG doesn’t feel very different to me and they all are doing an okayish job. But everything’s better than google.
Kagi lets you try it for a while before asking you to pay for it, fyi