40 stories tagged search-engines, newest first.
211 points by wuemeli | 123 comments
Swiss Federal Council press release on its planned law for communication platforms and search engines, adding child-protection measures and extending reporting of unlawful content.
4 points by 59percentmore | 8 comments
Ask HN thread posing a hypothetical where the US government nationalizes Alphabet to restore Google Search quality and remove LLM features.
43 points by speckx | 46 comments
A blog post arguing that people should stop using "google" as a verb meaning to search the web.
1899 points by sancho-panza | 1065 comments
A Bear Blog post titled "When did Google get so weird?"; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification page.
47 points by giuliomagnifico | 69 comments
Norwegian SciTech News article on a study finding that users aged 9 to 18 are turning from Google search to AI chatbots, with uncertain consequences.
1217 points by speckx | 379 comments
Kagi's changelog entry for August 21, 2026, covering a revamped Stocks widget, Assistant improvements, and other search updates.
845 points by awnird | 844 comments
A Walrus essay by Vass Bednar arguing that Google Search is declining as AI reshapes the web, and that the internet's collective memory is disappearing.
1021 points by HelloUsername | 496 comments
PC Gamer news article reporting DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week after Google claimed people love its AI mode.
460 points by elorant | 430 comments
TechCrunch article recommending six alternative search engines to try as Google Search shifts toward AI-driven results.
651 points by berkeleyjunk | 891 comments
Google Keyword blog post announcing new AI features and agents in Search and a redesigned AI-powered search box, presented at I/O 2026.
402 points by supermdguy | 205 comments
Ask.com's homepage now shows a farewell notice saying IAC discontinued its search business and Ask.com closed on May 1, 2026 after 25 years.
428 points by josephwegner | 235 comments
Kagi blog post following up on Google antitrust rulings, search index access, AI competition, and their impact on Kagi's search business.
980 points by tomjuggler | 778 comments
A Circus Scientist blog post arguing that Google is no longer useful and asking where creators and small businesses should turn next.
511 points by msub2 | 235 comments
Kagi blog post announcing SlopStop, a community-driven feature for detecting and flagging AI-generated slop and content farms in Kagi Search.
862 points by grappler | 402 comments
Kagi blog post announcing Kagi News, a daily news digest app positioned as an alternative to endless-scroll news feeds.
809 points by colesantiago | 539 comments
CNBC article reporting Judge Amit Mehta's ruling that Google may keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search distribution contracts.
390 points by tigroferoce | 219 comments
Kagi's public stats page showing member counts (50,074 members), families, teams, daily queries, assistant threads, and Orion+ members.
387 points by willbryk | 129 comments
Launch HN post introducing Exa Websets, an embeddings-powered search engine that uses LLM agents to verify results and returns them as enrichable tables.
579 points by Ch00k | 394 comments
A Daring Fireball post by John Gruber recommending readers try switching their default search engine to Kagi, the paid search service.
327 points by lucgommans | 150 comments
Kagi's public stats page showing member, query, and assistant usage counts, with a leaderboard of the domains users most often promote and block in search results.
334 points by erlend_sh | 203 comments
Ecosia blog post from 2018 announcing that the company's founders gave up the right to ever sell the search engine or take profits out of it.
491 points by amarcheschi | 166 comments
Ecosia blog post announcing a partnership with Qwant to build an independent European web search index.
881 points by b3n | 320 comments
Kagi blog post from February 2025 announcing Privacy Pass authentication, which lets users access Kagi Search anonymously.
380 points by chuckwnelson | 413 comments
Blog post by Chuck W. Nelson arguing Google's search results are degraded and that OpenAI's ChatGPT search is following Google's early-2000s playbook.
331 points by r721 | 170 comments
Search Engine Roundtable article from Sep 24, 2024 by Barry Schwartz reporting that Google's cached page feature has been fully removed.
448 points by darthShadow | 214 comments
Kagi blog post from September 4, 2024 announcing The Assistant, its AI assistant product, with an embedded teaser video.
834 points by rvz | 610 comments
Bloomberg news article reporting that a judge ruled Google's search default deals with Apple and others on phones violated antitrust law in the DOJ case.
339 points by turkeytotal | 246 comments
404 Media news article reporting that Reddit now blocks search engines other than Google, following its AI data licensing deal with Google.
358 points by Sirupsen | 63 comments
Launch blog post by turbopuffer's CEO explaining why they built a vector and full-text search engine on object storage to cut search infrastructure costs.
696 points by cwmartin | 263 comments
Kagi blog post from March 2024 announcing a partnership between the Kagi search engine and Wolfram, framed around search result accuracy and trustworthiness.
564 points by alexmolas | 88 comments
Blog post walking through building a simple search engine from scratch in about 80 lines of Python, motivated by small website discoverability.
382 points by croes | 130 comments
Search Engine Roundtable article reporting that Google Search removed the cached page link from search results, with tips on how to still view the cache.
856 points by 882542F3884314B | 433 comments
Dan Luu blog post comparing search result quality across Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT using sample queries.
512 points by ggpsv | 224 comments
A 2021 Marginalia blog post arguing that small independent websites are hard to find via Google or Reddit, leaving them with little traffic.
573 points by u2077 | 152 comments
Kagi blog post from September 2023 announcing Kagi Small Web, a feature surfacing non-commercial personal websites and blogs.
865 points by tech234a | 431 comments
Kagi Search stats page showing a leaderboard of domains users most often block, lower, raise, or pin in their search personalizations.
361 points by pg_1234 | 312 comments
TechRadar opinion piece arguing that the Reddit subreddit blackout exposed how heavily Google search results depend on Reddit content.
630 points by twapi | 409 comments
Brave announcement that Brave Search has removed its last Bing dependency and now serves all web results from its own independent index.
319 points by Buildstarted | 227 comments
A GitHub commit to DuckDuckGo's help pages updating the search syntax page, removing 64 lines of search operator documentation.
562 points by carlycue | 686 comments
SamMobile news article reporting that Samsung is considering replacing Google with Microsoft Bing as the default search engine on Galaxy phones.