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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 hnben »

pentae wrote: post #429
BoppreH wrote: post #153

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 rem…

I would love to use Nebula but it seems to lean quite politically in one direction (as I suspect from a Canadian platform) which seems like something I don't want to support with my dollars. At least on YouTube I can find a diverse range of opinions

> At least on YouTube I can find a diverse range of opinions

what?

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by eviks »

sergiosgc wrote: post #746
eviks wrote: post #618

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was specifically asking about typos in quotes

No, it won't fix quotes. A quote is an exact match. And please, let it continue to be so.

Please read the question again.

What part of "Does it warn you about typos" is about "fixing quotes"???

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by _kidlike »

mongol wrote: post #19
crisp wrote: post #6

Happy 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?

another happy user here. yes it does!

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by climb_stealth »

hosteur wrote: post #507
climb_stealth wrote: post #502

Been using Kagi for 2 months now and am pretty happy. Have been using the $10 plan even though I didn't cross the threshold as I think it's a good cause. My two main complaints: - It's not very good with conversions. Say searching '120mph in kmh' doesn't work. Or the little widget with conversions that do work like '120cm in m' doesn't allow to change the input and change values on the fly. - The image search is supe…

> searching '120mph in kmh' doesn't work 120 mph in km/h does work, though. I don't think "kmh" is a normal abbreviation. This is the first time I see it.

Interesting, '120mph in km/h' doesn't work on my end either. Though you are right. kmh is not a proper abbreviation but it doesn't bother any of the other search engines either.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by hnben »

BoppreH wrote: post #153

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 rem…

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

is it usable again?

I remember using LineageOS for a couple of years, but ditching it about 3 years ago. The for me dealbreaking was when banking apps stopped working

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by hnben »

eep_social wrote: post #325
jlund-molfese wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I am not the gp but yes. I had the same concern last time I evaluated Kagi and now I expect to become a paying customer this weekend when I have some time to do all my reading and reconfigure my main devices.

> I am not the gp

what is GP?

(sorry, I am new to hackernews and don't yet know all the acronyms)

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by alex_toms »

Never heard of this before. But if the results are actually better than Google as people say, than it’s worth trying. I’ve literally stopped using Google for a while now (and instead use chatGPT and Youtube) because all those articles were just some SEO-optimized bullshit

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by jodrellblank »

tiagod wrote: post #341
kelnos wrote: post #318

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> yet another stackoverflow copy I never got why these even ever appear in Google search results (or any search results, really). It feels like it would be super trivial to identify sites that are scraped copies of other sites. Granted, without foreknowledge, the engine doesn't know which is the original. But at the very least this can be determined by a human once, and then the problem goes away forever for that par…

That ship has already sailed, they are already using AI in mass to generate original looking content.

En masse

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/en_masse

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by eviks »

_flux wrote: post #675
eviks wrote: post #580

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it warn you about typos in your "prhase that exists with a phrase " or just blanks out?

If you get zero results, you'd probably see the mistake prettty fast, right? I imagine most often (like 90%+ of cases) when one searches for phrases they would be a result of copy-pasting from another source, so handling this case in a special way would just not be worth the effort.

What's up with the extreme estimats?

And if you get 100s results instead of 0?

And what if it's not 90%, but 50%? It's definitely wrong for me, I most often use it to exclude irrelevant results, and I'd imagine it's also wrong in general case for such a targeted search engine

The "effort" is using the same typo detection algorithm you use for non-quoted search to display the same warning

Also the benefit of a warning is that you can press a correction link to automatically fix and restart search, which is better UI

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by NotSuspicious »

yunwal wrote: post #482
bee_rider wrote: post #423

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t play the lottery, but I think this is not really correct. Playing the lottery must be an action that has a negative expected value (otherwise they’d go out of business). But if, rather than expected value, you are optimizing for “probability of having a hundred million dollars” or whatever, your options are: keep the money you would have spent on the ticket (0% chance of success) or buy the ticket (very small…

I think it's still probably better to throw all the money down on an unlikely sports bet or some crazy options trade. The lottery is particularly skewed to the house.

You can buy a lottery ticket for every single big jackpot for a year and lose less than your average options trader. The value is the feeling you get that you and your family might not have to work for the rest of your lives. That feeling is clearly and obviously worth a dollar a day.
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