What's the language support like? I can find what I need in English, but I really struggle to find good search results in Japanese - but if that isn't something they've been paying attention to then they're unlikely to be good at it.
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
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#163Interesting 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 f…
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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#164Call 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.
At the end of the day, it comes down to what your time is worth to you. I do about 1500 searches per month and paying 10€ per month for those searches to actually be relevant makes it a no brainer.
Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#165Happy 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…
Weird question, but: what do you search for? I switched to DuckDuckGo a while back but I’m not a heavy searcher. I would be curious to know your typical use cases!
Mainly tech/programming stuff for which Kagi is outstanding. Lately I've searched a lot about a city (restaurants, places to visit, events, ...) I moved in and it works for that too.
Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#166Happy 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…
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?
When I first signed up for Kagi, I found myself just searching for fun. I hadn’t had that feeling in forever (well apart from when Google was first launched)
Very happy customer here.
Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#167Call 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.
Assuming you've already paid $10 for your terabytes of streaming and that wasn't the last dollar you owned, how does paying for a completely different thing relate to your media streaming?
I can buy potatoes that last me for a week for the same price as for what I'd pay to just get a coffee, but if I've already bought my potatoes and have money to spare, why couldn't I buy also the coffee?
Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#168Happy 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…
> 10 bucks a month for a tool that I use multiple times every single day is more than reasonable.
This number really varies based on where you live, and there is no pricing model that accounts for this. I suppose it is mostly just aimed at Americans.
Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#169Happy 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…
Ditto; also happy customer, been paying for a long time now, never looked back money wise, or to google.
My experience trying switching with duckduckgo (repeatedly) always failed; checking google, unhappy with ddg results. Kagi, not so.
Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#170Happy 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…
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?
Kagi is as good as google used to be. It doesn't have that same 'wow' effect because we've all experienced what good search is.
It feels like turning on your ad blocker. It's what web search was supposed to be all along. It isn't that it's better than Google, Google is just so much worse now.
I'm extremely happy with it. Just the ability to block Pinterest from my results forever is worth the price.