I'm trying Kagi now :
- search results are greats !
- the speed isn't that great (results can take more than 1s to show) : does it become faster once you pay for it ? Or maybe it has to do with the access from europe.
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#732YES!!
I love seeing the success of kagi! I’m an early adopter and the search results quality plus the hidden gems plus the ability to customize them is just fantastic!
A example of customization that I’ve been experimenting is lowering a bit the results from stackoverflow to see official documentation first, it’s been working like a charm!
Thanks again for making kagi in spite of all the naysayers!
Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#733I tried out Kagi the other month. I went back to brave search. The killer brave search for feature for me is the goggles. You can even create your own goggle and narrow down searches to whatever you want. I wish Kagi supported that as well.
Are you familiar with Kagi Lenses?
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My theory is that google went from ads in search results to ads on visited pages. By buying doubleclick etc they are suddenly incentivised to drive traffic to ad-supported websites. Almost all the interesting factual websites are not ad-monetized. The SO spam etc are all scraps of the factual websites with ads injected. If google simply deprioritized ad-supported websites the search results would be much cleaner, but…
We could test this. Take a few hundred search queries, strip the pages that display Google ads, and see if the remainder of the search result is better or worse. We'd need to get some humans in to rank the results, but that's not a big problem. "How well does this web page answer this query, on a scale of 1-10?" With a collection of ranked pages, we can answer other questions as well. I'd be interested in running the…
Google searches are ranked by humans, it’s a contractor job
Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#735About time. The old prices and search limits were naughty.
Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#736YES!! I love seeing the success of kagi! I’m an early adopter and the search results quality plus the hidden gems plus the ability to customize them is just fantastic! A example of customization that I’ve been experimenting is lowering a bit the results from stackoverflow to see official documentation first, it’s been working like a charm! Thanks again for making kagi in spite of all the naysayers!
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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#737This is great, I had a limited number of queries with my previous plan and I would end end using duckduckgo most of the time out of fear of "wasting" my limited kagi searches.
The mental gymnastic of having to decide if a search is worth using Kagi for, ended up in my not really using Kagi..
This unlimited (and reasonably priced) solves this, thanks!
Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#738Call 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.
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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
#739Earlier quoted context omitted.
We could test this. Take a few hundred search queries, strip the pages that display Google ads, and see if the remainder of the search result is better or worse. We'd need to get some humans in to rank the results, but that's not a big problem. "How well does this web page answer this query, on a scale of 1-10?" With a collection of ranked pages, we can answer other questions as well. I'd be interested in running the…
Google searches are ranked by humans, it’s a contractor job
I don't doubt it, but obviously something's going wrong between the human-generated training data and the SERP, else why are we getting utter crap back?
(Or, as I said, it's our idea of what constitutes a good result that's wrong).
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Google's gotta make money off Pinterest somehow, based on the most blocked domains on Kagi: https://kagi.com/stats Pinterest is a scourge on the modern web, worse than any other.
Might these stats be biased by the demographics that use Kagi? I don't use Pinterest, and never really encounter it on a daily basis, but some of my friends really like the site. Tbf, they might use stackoverflow more, but seeing Hacker News on the top 5 doesn't seem to reflect the average web user's usage...
I only recently discovered pinterest as a useful site, but only because a friend convinced me to create an account. It only becomes usable with an account and it even makes fun, but most people are probably like I was and don’t want to create an account and are annoyed of pinterest hijacking the „save image“ function, redirecting you when you don’t have an account and nagging you with a login wall. It really only becomes great if you give in (only took me 5 years or so).