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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 rajamaka »

jwmcq wrote: post #56
boringg wrote: post #11

I think Kagi sounds interesting but the business model is a tough one outside of niche HN types. E.g. I am interested but can't be bothered to pursue it as it seems like an unnecessary additional SAS model cost to my monthly budget. How does search quality really change my life? Entrenched behavior is tough to overcome especially ostensibly free products.

> How does search quality really change my life? Ask this to someone who remembers when Google first appeared. I am not a Kagi user, but am seriously considering it after a number of months having to dig through at least 8 results of paywalled or possibly AI-generated pages for almost every Google query; seriously, I just did a search for 'python concatenate list' on google and it was worse than I expected - the offi…

I just ditched search altogether for questions like that and use ChatGPT. Has improved my workflow so much.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by Paul-Craft »

dylan604 wrote: post #101
konfusinomicon wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hotbot! now there's a name I haven't heard in a while! that was the first search engine I used regularly. it was the perfect place to find warcraft 2 cheats and magic the gathering deck ideas

you could always Ask Jeeves if you were looking for things too.

I used to prefer Dogpile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogpile

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by rkagerer »

konfusinomicon wrote: post #51
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?

hotbot! now there's a name I haven't heard in a while! that was the first search engine I used regularly. it was the perfect place to find warcraft 2 cheats and magic the gathering deck ideas

It actually felt like one of the better pre-Google engines.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by jorams »

IshKebab wrote: post #131
jorams wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've generally found searching for symbols to work quite well. It's a mixture of the two. You can check the results for "what is %" here: https://kagi.com/search?q=what+is+%25&r=no_region&sh=Qd1RlT2...

Why do your search links work, but the ones from Kagi's own "Features" page just take me to a login page?

It looks like the like the blog post linked to by Features links to plain search page URLs, which only work for logged-in users. I used the Share feature to get a sharable link. I guess that page needs to be updated.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by [deleted] »

IshKebab wrote: post #131
jorams wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've generally found searching for symbols to work quite well. It's a mixture of the two. You can check the results for "what is %" here: https://kagi.com/search?q=what+is+%25&r=no_region&sh=Qd1RlT2...

Why do your search links work, but the ones from Kagi's own "Features" page just take me to a login page?

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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by constantly »

jwmcq wrote: post #56
boringg wrote: post #11

I think Kagi sounds interesting but the business model is a tough one outside of niche HN types. E.g. I am interested but can't be bothered to pursue it as it seems like an unnecessary additional SAS model cost to my monthly budget. How does search quality really change my life? Entrenched behavior is tough to overcome especially ostensibly free products.

> How does search quality really change my life? Ask this to someone who remembers when Google first appeared. I am not a Kagi user, but am seriously considering it after a number of months having to dig through at least 8 results of paywalled or possibly AI-generated pages for almost every Google query; seriously, I just did a search for 'python concatenate list' on google and it was worse than I expected - the offi…

Yep, I think I’m going to try Kagi. I am so, so tired and exhausted of every search result on Google being “the top X in ${this_month_of_this_year}” with a list of Amazon affiliate links. I append Reddit to the searches for products now, but notice on higher margin items you can click into Reddit user history of people giving their “opinion” and see that every post they make is about that particular product.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by wackget »

Call me tight-fisted or naive or whatever but I don't see $10/month as a remotely attractive price point and I don't see how they can justify it, especially when their results are still powered at least in part by external indexers.

$10/month can get you terabytes of media on streaming platforms.

$1-2/month is what I would pay.

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