Sev

IIRC, they cited google as a reason not to work on their own search, since that’s what most of their userbase had got used to searching reddit with anyway by that point.

Too late. On the advice of another Lemmy thread, I started trying Kagi a couple weeks ago, for exactly this reason. I highly doubt I’ll come back; it’s been working great for me, and given how important search is to me both personally and professionally, it’s easily, easily worth the price.