Unfortunately I stopped using Kagi just due to it not being worth the money for me personally.
But look at the company using bearblog.dev, that's awesome. bearblog.dev remains one of my favorite services I've found through HackerNews.
Enhancements to the Kagi Search Experience
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#12One thing that'd be nice is if they saved your selection of temperature scales. Currently they always show Celsius by default, but let you switch to Fahrenheit if you dare. I know that preferring Fahrenheit makes me a reprobate, but is this a hill they want to die on? Are they being paid by Big Metric? I'm logged in, go ahead and save it to my profile.
Looks like it's on the backlog https://kagifeedback.org/d/862-weather-always-defaults-to-ce...
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#13Unfortunately I stopped using Kagi just due to it not being worth the money for me personally. But look at the company using bearblog.dev, that's awesome. bearblog.dev remains one of my favorite services I've found through HackerNews.
Same here. Too expensive after the pricing change and their browser is irredeemably buggy. I gave them a chance.
On to neeva.
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#14https://kagi.com/pricing?plan=individual I knew Kagi is paid but I didn't know they had a limit on how many searches you can perform, which is also rather low. But what I really didn't like is how dishonest they are. The lowest tier costs $5 and includes 200 searches per month. That is 6.66 per day! But they say "Includes enough searches for 99% of internet users" because "The average person searches Google three or…
They literally provide sources for those claims. I have no idea how you can say with a straight face that they're dishonest. They're very clear and transparent about how their plans are limited.
It's also extremely easy to check what your usage is for the current month and get a monthly overview. If you happen to use more than the 200 searches for the standard plan, they charge 1.5 cents per search. If you blow past it and end up using another 500 searches, which matches the $10 plan, you're still only paying $12.5.
They also provide soft and hard limits to how many searches you can use to avoid unexpected charges.
Like, I honestly don't know what else you expect them to do.
edit: Also, for reference, as a heavy user who basically lives in their search engine, my total searches for previous months are: 786, 782, 610, 519, 717.
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#15https://kagi.com/pricing?plan=individual I knew Kagi is paid but I didn't know they had a limit on how many searches you can perform, which is also rather low. But what I really didn't like is how dishonest they are. The lowest tier costs $5 and includes 200 searches per month. That is 6.66 per day! But they say "Includes enough searches for 99% of internet users" because "The average person searches Google three or…
My IDE supports enough lines of code for 99% of jobs!
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#16Unfortunately I stopped using Kagi just due to it not being worth the money for me personally. But look at the company using bearblog.dev, that's awesome. bearblog.dev remains one of my favorite services I've found through HackerNews.
Same here. Too expensive after the pricing change and their browser is irredeemably buggy. I gave them a chance. On to neeva.
I was more talking about their search. It was fine, but it wasn't worth the money for me. The browser didn't really pique my interest on release but I wouldn't expect it to be great on release (they're still a small company, but they're doing some really ambitious stuff which is cool)
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#17Can never get into Kagi. You pay for privacy but if it’s ever sold your privacy will be retroactively taken and will be even more valuable since it will be known by the buyer that you pay. Better off using a VPN and duck or Brave imho. In any case these improvements do look very good. Public record search is cool. Lenses improvements look interesting as that seems the be the most unique feature.
Your privacy can't be retroactively taken: Kagi does not store your search history. The only search history you have is local, your own web browser.
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#18https://kagi.com/pricing?plan=individual I knew Kagi is paid but I didn't know they had a limit on how many searches you can perform, which is also rather low. But what I really didn't like is how dishonest they are. The lowest tier costs $5 and includes 200 searches per month. That is 6.66 per day! But they say "Includes enough searches for 99% of internet users" because "The average person searches Google three or…
They literally provide sources for those claims. I have no idea how you can say with a straight face that they're dishonest. They're very clear and transparent about how their plans are limited. It's also extremely easy to check what your usage is for the current month and get a monthly overview. If you happen to use more than the 200 searches for the standard plan, they charge 1.5 cents per search. If you blow past…
The GP didn't say they're lying about the number, the claim was that the number isn't representative of the amount of Google searches Kagi users are likely to perform.
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#19Time to give Kagi another go, Google is ruined for me, I just can’t use Microsoft products. Will try again.
I use Kagi exclusively. The results are just as bad as googles, but isn’t covered in spam. Given the sorry state of search quality in the SEO garbage world we live in, that’s high praise. I’m happy to spend the money every month.
Thanks, I felt similar last time I used it. Wasn’t magic like I remember Google being.
I wonder what happened to Google?
My theory is maybe their own systems have become too complex for them to understand and tune now. But they’ve invested so heavily into “AI” they don’t known where else to go in order to fix it ?
I’ve here seen or experienced a search product quite like Google used to be. It truly felt like magic in it’s day.
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#20"Kagi shopping results have no affiliate links and feature the most helpful, unbiased reviews."
This is a breath of fresh air. Ever since CNN Underscored started being a thing, I've grown to dislike more and more the swamp of affiliate link promoting content.
Some concent creaters on YouTube for example (like randomfrankp), are able pull it off, but deeply affects the credibility of most content.