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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 AussieWog93 »

wackget wrote: post #150

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.

Honestly, I think you're part of the tight-fisted minority.

For the average person, there's no real difference between $2/mo and $10/mo. They're both in that "more expensive than free, but not expensive enough to think about" category.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by arp242 »

jlund-molfese wrote: post #307
arp242 wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, exactly. I looked at Kagi last week (first time I had heard of it), when the $10/month plan was "only" 1,000 searches a month and "unlimited" was $25. While I think that I'll probably stay well within 1,000 searches, I'm also not sure, and it's just not something I want to have to worry about (it's ~33/day on average and I doubt I'll ever hit it, but still...) One of the reasons I decided to skip Kagi for now.

Wouldn't today's change make you reconsider, because you now no longer have to worry about how much you search for $10/month, it's just unlimited?

Yes, I'll probably check it out and at least consider paying for it, depending on how much I like it (well, once I have a job and some disposable income...) $25/month seemed too much regardless; I don't know the economics behind it but that it's now adjusted to $10/month seems I was right.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by radicalriddler »

Resubscribed. I liked Kagi when it came out, happy to give it another shot.

The search UI seems broken on my Firefox due to some absolute styling. I had to set this in my Stylus config to fix

.auto_suggestions { padding: 0; top: unset; }

The auto suggestions were appearing over the top of the search bar due to unruly top css.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by justusthane »

codezero wrote: post #264

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.

You can use Kagi’s Orion browser on iOS which (of course) supports Kagi natively.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by deprecative »

rkagerer wrote: post #173
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

>>I want to buy compute hours. Or a computER.

> Or a computER.

I barely know 'er.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by kuon »

apricot wrote: post #67

I mostly use Duckduckgo these days but fall back on Google for non-English searches because DDG is lacking in that area. Kagi users, how good is Kagi for non-English searches?

Results are good, but the problem is working in multiple languages or in region with multiple languages.

There is a discussion[1] on this topic on the forum.

[1]: https://kagifeedback.org/d/89-language-vs-region

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by 14 »

olig15 wrote: post #270
adamsb6 wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It appears you can as one commenter who uses the search engine states in one of the comments.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by redhale »

jlund-molfese wrote: post #307
arp242 wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, exactly. I looked at Kagi last week (first time I had heard of it), when the $10/month plan was "only" 1,000 searches a month and "unlimited" was $25. While I think that I'll probably stay well within 1,000 searches, I'm also not sure, and it's just not something I want to have to worry about (it's ~33/day on average and I doubt I'll ever hit it, but still...) One of the reasons I decided to skip Kagi for now.

Wouldn't today's change make you reconsider, because you now no longer have to worry about how much you search for $10/month, it's just unlimited?

It me!

I literally looked at Kagi like a week or two ago from a link here. I really liked it, and I've really been hating Google search more and more each day. But I concluded that 1000 searches felt too limiting, and $25 felt too expensive, so I passed hoping a price change would come at some point in the future.

And voila! Just signed up for $10 unlimited. Probably won't even use 1000/month, but psychologically it just feels so much better.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by radicalriddler »

radicalriddler wrote: post #373

Resubscribed. I liked Kagi when it came out, happy to give it another shot. The search UI seems broken on my Firefox due to some absolute styling. I had to set this in my Stylus config to fix .auto_suggestions { padding: 0; top: unset; } The auto suggestions were appearing over the top of the search bar due to unruly top css.

Another more UX issue.

When I hit Advanced search, and then click Podcasts (or any) without a search query, it gives a "tab switch" like behaviour.

Given that behaviour, When I enter a search term and hit enter Then as a user, I expect the search term to search based on the category I'd selected.

What I get Given I've selected podcasts without a search term entered When I enter a search term and press "Search" button Then I get sent to the generic search page for that search term, not the expected category I'd selected on the prior page.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by MatthiasPortzel »

FpUser wrote: post #328
viraptor wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I just did exactly this search on Google. The first result was this -[0] which is exactly spot on. Not sure if it is because I use Brave browser which also blocks ads on websites. [0] - https://tecadmin.net/get-current-date-time-javascript/#:~:te...

You clearly use an ad blocker. That page is over 50% ads.
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