I have so much trouble with Google these days.

I like to ask complicated questions, where keywords are insufficient. Google first removed search predicates, making this challenging. Now their results quality is abysmal.

I'm not a fan of OpenAI because of their controversial behavior, but ChatGPT does a great job answering my questions. I can then typically search from there if I need more info.

Try Anthropic's Claude -- just as good, and free (thus far) of the sort of shenanigans one sees with "Open"AI

I have had trouble searching for blogs/sites older than a few years, in particular with image search with all the AI-generated crap that floods the internet now. The same search query in kagi gave me the results i was looking for in the first row which convinced me to do the switch. Otherwise before kagi I was going with google/startpage (uses google index). I tried DDG/bing some point but it was horrible compared to google.

Is this a comment from 2002? It's been over 20 years that everybody _knows_ Google is "fantastic".

The only new thing in the last 5 years is the absurd decline in quality of Google results.

I'm sticking with AltaVista for now. They came back against Lycos so could do it again. Anything but Yahoo! though.