Yeah that's increasingly been my feeling as well. I have to keep prefacing my Kagi recommendations with, "web search is less and less useful every year, but..."

I still appreciate being able to customize rankings, bangs, and redirects. But with how utterly shit the web is overall, any web search is basically only good if you know the site(s) the answer(s) will be on. When you're searching for something novel-to-you, even Kagi is just going to show you a full page of unregulated slop on the dumbest, just-registered-this-year domains. Real information is increasingly limited to small islands of trust.

I don’t like any search engines now :(

I hadn't really noticed anything like this until you pointed it out. My main use for Kagi is to pin Wikipedia results... I just tried searching for "nanoclaw" on Kagi (I'm in the UK so results biased towards there) and got:

1. nanoclaw[dot]net (!)

2. github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw which looks like a ripoff?

3. Three videos, at least one of which looks like slop with crypto ads

4. github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw which I presume is the real repo judging from the name?

5. Three "interesting finds" the top one of which is nanoclaw.dev, but with the title "Don't trust AI agents" because it's a blog post from that site

6. A fork of the qwibitai/nanoclaw repo