https://search.marginalia.nu/ by our own https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=marginalia_nu

Update: I've reverted back to Google for now. Kagi was neat, but requiring login for search was very bad ux(for example, I use multiple browsers, incognito mode, etc).

I like the Google product, it's the search index that's full of junk.

When researching and looking for high quality, original source content, I want a different index than what they currently offer.

If anyone knows of a solution, would love to learn!

It's not that difficult to log in everywhere. People act like their car broke down when presented with a login form. Use a password you can easily remember or a password manager, and you're good. Set up your phone to remember your e-mail so you don't have to type it all the time.

I've already tried Kagi and Perplexity, but now I'm trying You.com. What matters to me is the cheapest option.

The Stract open source search engine has a setting to mark results with probable ads or paywalls: https://stract.com/settings

The API is currently free and also has that feature.

I've been working on tools to make Google search better for a couple of years now and have gathered 18 of them into a site called SearchTweaks: https://searchtweaks.com/ . The site is completely free (no cost, no ads, no tracking.) You might find No Shop Sherlock useful, or one of the query builders.

checkout perplexity.ai (I think that's it).

Ah, hadn't tried that yet. Pretty neat. Will go in my toolbox, thanks.

Still a little too commercial to be my primary, but thank you!

my boss recommended it to me, it seems to yield almost identical results as chat-gpt but they site their sources better. It uses claude instead of openai