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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 zelphirkalt »

james2doyle wrote: post #77

I like the statement they made on their jobs page: Core Front-end Team Passion for creating delightful and swift user interfaces. Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and _an understanding that JavaScript can be used sparingly to enhance, not create, product experiences._ Ability to prototype rapidly. Fun fact: At Kagi, we prioritize speed, to the point where *all functionalities of Kagi Search (except Stripe checkout and Maps)…

That frontend team statement alone makes it almost worth switching and thereby supporting their work. It is rare these days to hear such wise words.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by rfrey »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #136
prepend wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right and this is the reason I don’t like subscriptions. Id rather buy things. I don’t want a car subscription. I want to buy a car. I don’t want a book subscription. I want to buy a car. I don’t a compute subscription. I want to buy compute hours. Etc etc

Cars are the one thing I don't want to buy. It's not an asset. It depreciates. I'd like to pay a reasonable monthly subscription with a small fee per mile once I go over some minimum for my tier. Once autonomous vehicles are stable, I'm presuming I'll be able to hail a car in 5 or 10 mins via app. I guess the only question is what to do in full-on emergencies. For example, when the zombie apocalypse begins, or the al…

Isn't that a lease?

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by BoppreH »

Three years ago, I migrated from Gmail to FastMail because I was afraid of losing access to my digital life on Google's whim.

Two years ago, I found out that my favorite Youtube creators were all on Nebula.

One year ago, I switched my phone to LineageOS to get security updates a little longer.

A month ago, I installed OpenStreetMaps because Google Maps got really bad at showing points-of-interest.

And today, Kagi removed the only obstacle that kept me on Google Search. I'm looking forward to building my filter list.

After accidentally de-googlifying myself, I might ditch Windows next. It feels really nice using products that respect me, as opposed to services that are actively hostile because of advertisers.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by carlosjobim »

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?

There are tons of information workers who are dependent on search in their work – or if they're not, could work much better with good quality search.

The examples are really too many to list, but it really depends on the person. When it comes to not spending a dollar, people will create the most incredible and reality-defying reasons. So I'd expect 99% of Google users to keep using Google, or maybe even stop using web search when Google becomes completely unusable. Then they'll say "I have no need to search for things anyway".

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by freeAgent »

runeofdoom wrote: post #59

This is going to get me to try Kagi. I've thought about it several times, enough that I did track my searches for a week. Between work, hobbies, and just life I searched (overwhelmingly DDG and Bing) over a thousand times in a week. (A evening of prep for my tabletop RPG racked up over a hundred all by itself.) I've bailed on Google - wading though the flood of SEO'd garbage just stopped being worth it. Bing and DDG…

Be sure to look into the results customization options. You may not need them, but they can also make the engine feel so much more tuned to your needs.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by JoshuaEN »

viraptor wrote: post #74
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?

In my experience it's not that there's better quality results found, but rather low quality results are skipped. There's a lot filtered by default + it's easy to click "block this domain" when you run into yet another stackoverflow copy. It means that when you're searching for code related things, you often get small relevant blogs in position 3+ rather than SEO spam. For example searching for "current time on JavaSc…

This is my experience as well. Low quality junk is often not present, and if it does show up, it's two mouse clicks to never see that domain again.

Also the ability to promote high quality domains helps even more with this (though i have found one needs to be careful with pinning domains, as it can lead to irrelevant results being shown first because they have some if the same keywords).

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