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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by daft_pink »

h4x0rr wrote: post #39
crisp wrote: post #6

Happy customer here. Kagi is by far the best search engine there is. When I first started using Kagi a year ago or so, I compared results with Google every now and then. Now? Never. 10 bucks a month for a tool that I use multiple times every single day is more than reasonable. The results hit home virtually every time. There are variety of features to customize your searches but truthfully, I never found the need for…

So would you say it's on-par with google results or even better?

I think it is better most of the time because:

- it combines the top 10 this or that list into listicles that are aggregated into their own section and I find to often be full of spam - it lets you block or deprioritize any site you want like quora, medium, Forbes, that often give me useless or incorrect info or are just their to boost so - it lets you prioritize sites you like in the search ranking - it doesn’t have blocked or censored keywords - it lets you specify by date or time quickly and easily which I find to be beneficial and google seems to hide it constantly move around in news

It’s weaker for like looking up a phone number or hours for a local eatery, but in general I like it better.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by crisp »

zamadatix wrote: post #15

How many is unlimited? Presumably they don't get unlimited searches for $10 and, inevitably, someone will use more than they planned for. How much more than they expected is considered "fair use" or however they want to term it and why can't I know that before I sign up instead of guess I'm within what they are thinking?

While I think your questions are definitely relevant, in practice, you search less than you think.

I consider myself as a heavy search engine user but, based on Kagi stats, I was surprised how much less I actually searched compared to my estimate. My actual range is about 500-800 queries a month when I originally estimated upwards 1500 queries a month.

Same thing with my friends.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by wellthisisgreat »

m00dy wrote: post #10

anyone paying for kagi here ? how's it comparing to duckduckgo results ?

i really wanted to ditch google and gave my best shot to DDG and just couldn't use it, had to go to !g all the time. been paying for Kagi close to a year and I only do !g when I am proactively seeking to look at SEO spam

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by NobodyNada »

h4x0rr wrote: post #39
crisp wrote: post #6

Happy customer here. Kagi is by far the best search engine there is. When I first started using Kagi a year ago or so, I compared results with Google every now and then. Now? Never. 10 bucks a month for a tool that I use multiple times every single day is more than reasonable. The results hit home virtually every time. There are variety of features to customize your searches but truthfully, I never found the need for…

So would you say it's on-par with google results or even better?

Yes, its results are far better than Google’s. Google results are full of SEO spam, marketing pages, etc. Kagi tends to surface official documentation, blog posts, online discussion/Q&A. Overall, it does a very good job highlighting “real” content rather than “artificial” content. Plus, you can personalize it by boosting/downranking/blocking sites, creating regex rewrite rules on URLs, etc.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by gretch »

zakary wrote: post #24
zamadatix wrote: post #15

How many is unlimited? Presumably they don't get unlimited searches for $10 and, inevitably, someone will use more than they planned for. How much more than they expected is considered "fair use" or however they want to term it and why can't I know that before I sign up instead of guess I'm within what they are thinking?

Whatever the cap is, I’m sure it’s a lot higher than google will let you do before they start rate limiting you or making you do a captcha for every search. Pretty much all search services have some cap, after which they will put up roadblocks to slow you down

> I’m sure it’s a lot higher than google will let you do before they start rate limiting you

Do you have any basis for this assumption?

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