A bit tangential, I understand that Google is not well-received, and rightly so in some regards. However, has anyone been using something like this with Google: "<search-terms> site:blogpost.com OR site:github.io OR site:wordpress.com OR site:medium.com OR site:substack.com"?
And occasionally throwing in reddit.com and news.ycombinator.com as well. Google seems to be slightly biased towards github.io and medium.com, but I've quite recently found that it is a great way to browse the web.
The above search command is similar to what these niche search engines are doing but gets much more diverse results. Sure, it is likely to miss certain niche blogs. However, this is where adding site:news.ycombinator.com comes to the rescue - good niche blog posts are highly likely to eventually appear here.
It is far from a panacea, but I have found the experience to be quite decent. I have this command lying around in my shell and notes, so I just copy-paste it and add on to it.
> However, has anyone been using something like this with Google: "<search-terms> site:blogpost.com OR site:github.io OR site:wordpress.com OR site:medium.com OR site:substack.com"?
Besides the privacy aspect of the service, this is almost the whole value prop of Kagi: you can mark certain sites as ranking higher, lower, or banishing them from your results entirely. I never thought I'd stop using Google but I've become a happy Kagi customer.
And occasionally throwing in reddit.com and news.ycombinator.com as well. Google seems to be slightly biased towards github.io and medium.com, but I've quite recently found that it is a great way to browse the web.
The above search command is similar to what these niche search engines are doing but gets much more diverse results. Sure, it is likely to miss certain niche blogs. However, this is where adding site:news.ycombinator.com comes to the rescue - good niche blog posts are highly likely to eventually appear here.
It is far from a panacea, but I have found the experience to be quite decent. I have this command lying around in my shell and notes, so I just copy-paste it and add on to it.