I stopped using Kagi Search - back to a regular search engine

I decided to stop using Kagi Search instead of Google Search. In April, I started to use Kagi search as my primary search engine . This is due to the fact that it benefits myself not as much as I’d be happy to pay for. Most of my day-to-day searches are simple searches that do not need in-depth results. I’m not working in research or any area that requires me to find the one paper or article on the web that I need. Most of the time I use a search engine to find a specific site, e.g. when booking a hotel or looking for documentation, or I look up some general information, e.g. back exercises, a nice cooking receipt or the weather.

I now go back to Ecosia and use sometimes DuckDuckGo + Google. Recently I even noticed that I used ChatGPT to “google” something since it felt easier to type it there instead of building a good search query. I think I’ll notice this more often in the future, even though I still don’t really trust search results inside ChatGPT and Co. If it’s important I always double-check the linked references / websites. Sometimes it hallucinate non-existing websites.