I have to say, in my brief period experimenting with #KagiSearch / #Kagi as an alternative to Google, it's held up much better than I'd expected.
In this instance, although NONE of these search engines have actually found what I'm looking for, I muuuch prefer what Kagi returns than what Google or Bing return. I was trying to download the installer image for #TrueNAS SCALE but the download via the browser kept failing even in when using a download manager so I figured it was torrent time.
Tried a few searches, "TrueNas Scale Torrent," then "TrueNas Scale ISO Magnet Link" which brought up results from LinuxTracker, but not the current version which I had seen when I was on the download page earlier. Time to be a little more specific:
"TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.3.2.iso magnet"
When you get this specific:
- Google kinda gives up, the top link might have what you're looking for, but it doesn't give you any page content in the blurb. You'll have to open the link to find out. That's all it gives you.
- Bing actually does a good job at highlighting the version number located within pages and forums. Dare I say it, better than Google's results here.
- Kagi gives you a link straight to the download repository with 'Today' clearly marked and although Bing's highlighting of forums posts is useful, Kagi is technically being more relevant to my query by showing LinuxTracker and DistroWatch directly afterward.
You could argue that Google's results make it clear that what you're searching for doesn't exist, but it's also just as easy to assume that Google didn't like my specific wording and that I just need to keep searching. But in the case of Kagi, the results give me a better picture of what's going on.
Since it couldn't find results for the whole query, I get:
- An immediate understanding that what I'm looking for has just been released.
- Results for the version/file I'm looking for but in the wrong format.
- Results that match the general query but for an older version.
- Again, all dated. It's clear that 'Today' was when the version I was searching for was published, then the torrent links are from April.
tl;dr The layout of Kagi's personally gives me a better gauge of why I'm not finding desired results.
In this instance, although NONE of these search engines have actually found what I'm looking for, I muuuch prefer what Kagi returns than what Google or Bing return. I was trying to download the installer image for #TrueNAS SCALE but the download via the browser kept failing even in when using a download manager so I figured it was torrent time.
Tried a few searches, "TrueNas Scale Torrent," then "TrueNas Scale ISO Magnet Link" which brought up results from LinuxTracker, but not the current version which I had seen when I was on the download page earlier. Time to be a little more specific:
"TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.3.2.iso magnet"
When you get this specific:
- Google kinda gives up, the top link might have what you're looking for, but it doesn't give you any page content in the blurb. You'll have to open the link to find out. That's all it gives you.
- Bing actually does a good job at highlighting the version number located within pages and forums. Dare I say it, better than Google's results here.
- Kagi gives you a link straight to the download repository with 'Today' clearly marked and although Bing's highlighting of forums posts is useful, Kagi is technically being more relevant to my query by showing LinuxTracker and DistroWatch directly afterward.
You could argue that Google's results make it clear that what you're searching for doesn't exist, but it's also just as easy to assume that Google didn't like my specific wording and that I just need to keep searching. But in the case of Kagi, the results give me a better picture of what's going on.
Since it couldn't find results for the whole query, I get:
- An immediate understanding that what I'm looking for has just been released.
- Results for the version/file I'm looking for but in the wrong format.
- Results that match the general query but for an older version.
- Again, all dated. It's clear that 'Today' was when the version I was searching for was published, then the torrent links are from April.
tl;dr The layout of Kagi's personally gives me a better gauge of why I'm not finding desired results.