I tried Kagi briefly a while ago. It’s fine. Google is much better for obscure stuff if you’re willing to use it like people did in the 00s. Refine queries based on results and repeat until you find what you want. It also has the benefit of very good results linked in the Ai summary, which people often overlook.

Kagi might be better if you want less commercial results for broad terms, but I don’t really search that way these days, so I don’t need it for that.

Oracle vs. Google, and he mostly already had hobbyist knowledge of programming, but yes he did learn some Java for the case.