Thank God I listened to @gruber when he said to try Kagi. I’ve been using it for a year, and just renewed with a family pro plan last week!

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

TechCrunch
@ryanwells @gruber been a Duo user for over a year too, absolute game changer for my daughter using the Academic lenses for her research
@ryanwells I want a company like them to succeed but on the other hand they keep paying for Yandex API, funding Russia's war in Ukraine by proxy. This post claims it is 2% of their expenditure: https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/07/17/kagi/
PSA: part of your Kagi subscription fee goes to a Russian company (Yandex)

Unacceptable.

./techtipsy

@ryanwells @gruber so, google crawls internet, ingests all our info, and now it decouples the info I provided them from all over my website to give you “it’s” own answer - never showing source. Great! Lawsuits will happen!

Ps: my site has nothing on it right now as I switch providers but has had 30+ years of a Perl users mailing list archived on it in the past. So, yeah I’m kinda mad.

@ryanwells @gruber been using Kagi since the early days and have never gone back to Shmoogle. What’s even better is that my youngest uses Kagi Assistant (with Kimi 2.5 Reasoning - there are issues with 2.6 which support says they’re onto) to help her with her schoolwork and it’s absolutely incredible. Not extra Clause or ChatGPT subscription, and I love their privacy first focus.
@ryanwells @gruber So true. I've had it for a couple of years now and I don't even miss this Giggle thing (that's what it's called, right?)