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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 tambourine_man »

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)…

I already liked the domain name from the Mac shareware days of yore and I had sympathy for the business model.

But this… they might be winning my heart.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by koreth1 »

Kagi is my default search engine and I'm happy with it except for one category of search: location-sensitive.

I live in San Francisco, and if I type "sf weather" into Google, I get a weather forecast for San Francisco. If I type "sf weather" into Kagi, I get a weather forecast for Santa Fe, which, while technically a valid result for those search terms, is useless to me. Similarly, it's easy to search for restaurants and get search results for other restaurants of the same name in different cities.

But most of my searches aren't location-sensitive, and Kagi does a great job the rest of the time.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by codezero »

Another Kagi blog post (the small web one) convinced me to sign up and the limited number of searches for $10 was my main hesitation. I signed up anyways and haven't regretted it at all. It's a bummer Safari doesn't support custom search engines very well, but the Kagi extension works well enough.

This change will make a lot of other people like myself a lot more comfortable with signing up I bet.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by g_p »

tambourine_man wrote: post #255

I have FOMO-like feeling whenever I use a different search engine. Specially in programming, when the right article or stack overflow can save you an afternoon, the “I wonder if I would get better results if I was using Google” feeling is hard to shake. Too many decades, I guess. I’m rooting for something like Kagi, though. I’m glad to pay $10 for such an essencial tool. And I’ll eventually be over that hump if it pr…

For this use-case I think you'll be pleasantly surprised - Kagi seems to be pretty good at prioritizing stack overflow and similar (but not the endless content clones), official documentation pages, and small, niche, focused tech blogs by someone who had the same error and wrote a post on their personal blog about it.

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Post by b8 »

I tried Kagi when it was in beta, and I couldn't tell the different between other search indexers like You (you.com) or Searx. I emailed Dimitri telling them about my concerns with a subscription base search index model and they replied, "You are either used by your search engines or you pay to be free" (paraphrasing). However, there's non privacy comprising ways to do ads. I doubt a large number of people will be willing to pay for a search indexer in $current_year. Especially when there's FLOSS alternatives.

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Post by jabroni_salad »

rjh29 wrote: post #245
VHRanger wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only lockin I have remaining to windows is video games really

The Steam Deck is Linux and runs a large majority of games. You can do it on your laptop with Proton. It's amazing. Even weird stuff like Mass Effect Remastered (which requires EA Play client) works on Linux now.

Unfortunately 'the majority of games' wont include whatever fotm rando game my friends are inviting me to this time. If gaming was strictly a solo activity for me I would have gotten rid of windows a long time ago.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by olig15 »

adamsb6 wrote: post #217
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?

I'm just a week into using it, but one of the things I've noticed is that for technical queries official docs are ranked a lot higher than random blogs and those sites that just repackage content they scraped from Stack Overflow. I don't know if they're putting a finger on the scale, or maybe they're just doing the original Google thing of ranking sites that seem to be where the search terminates higher, but it's goo…

You can bump individual sites up and down in priority for your account. Hover over the shield to the right of each result and click ‘raise’, ‘lower’ etc
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