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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by desperate »

kulahan wrote: post #87
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…

That's awesome that it's so flexible. Can you search using symbols? Like if I'm trying to search "what is %" will it bring back results regarding the percentage sign, or results that start with the words "what is"? That's my major problem with google. Sometimes I need to search info on a symbol, and I don't know what it's called yet, so I have to perform another search, just to perform the one I actually care about.

^^^^ this is so frustrating to me.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by sph »

dot5xdev wrote: post #41

I'm currently paying for Kagi. It's nice. But, so far I feel like it may only be like 2% better than Google, probably not enough to keep me long term. A lot of times the results are better on Kagi than Google, but not by much. It makes sense they're similar since Kagi uses Google's index (among others).

> 2% better

Not in my experience, and what about user tracking and pervasive advertising? You don't seem to include that in your comparison.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by dylan604 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #31
mongol wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can the search result quality be quantified somehow? I remember when Google was new, and I used to use Altavista and Hotbot and those older search engines, the difference in results were like night and day, and Google's results were "wow!" Does Kagi give a similar impression as Google did then?

> Can the search result quality be quantified somehow? Encourage you to try it. I've repeated Scott Galloway's mantra that advertisement is a tax on America's poor and stupid. But I never quite clocked the cost of search ads. It might be solely due to that lack of scrolling through crud that makes Kagi seem much, much faster than Google or DuckDuckGo.

Isn't that the same thing said about Lotto/scratch-offs/etc?

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by jkubicek »

late25 wrote: post #82

Interesting the HN crowd is into this for the simple fact that you must be logged in (and presumably tracked?) to use it.

I have other ways to search anonymously. For 95% of my searches I'm happy to have my search history tracked, used to drive better results for me in the future and available for me to browse if I want to. As long as Kagi isn't selling my search history to another company, I actually prefer that they track my search history.

Note: currently Kagi doesn't track search history; I hope they find a way to enable it in the future.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by sph »

m00dy wrote: post #10

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

In my experience.

DDG 6/10

Brave Search 7/10

Google 8/10

Kagi 9/10

Basically all I want is a search engine that does what I tell it to do, and doesn't try to be smarter than me, because it is not. My killer Kagi feature is the forum search. The only way to get real human opinions on things, rather than regurgitated blogspam that's pervasive on Google and even more on DDG and other smaller engines.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by prepend »

I wish there was a way to just buy 10,000 searches as a block and charge down against it.

I don’t search that much. I don’t want another monthly service fee. But I love the idea of paying for search.

Id happily pay $5 for 300 searches, but don’t want to do that every month.

This seems like the buffet or gym model where they want people just mindlessly paying and then not using it that much.

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