I misread the title as "$10 a year" and was hyped, then was thoroughly disappointed when reality set in.
I already have too many subscription services. $10 for some occasional weekend web searches won't do.
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
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#912This is a minor detail, but I am impressed that the settings page has custom CSS. Getting this simple option feels special after seeing many companies, which had custom CSS, remove its support for the sake of hypothetical average user who cannot be trusted with anything other than GUI.
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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…
> 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…
Even if it wasn't easy to detect SO rip-offs, surely Google engineers see them all the time when they perform searches.
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Having been trialing Kagi for the last couple of months I do about 600-900 searches a month.
What are some examples of searches that you do? I guess I am just surprised at how often people search using a general search engine.
Reading back the last few:
- dutch baby pancake - dave hughes - albert park sailing lessons - paediatrician - LNC patient cables pinout - 23FBQ connector masimo - state’s powers australian constitution - digital ID ACCC - Woman dies due to bushfire smoke canberra - babytime library - bellroy - what does ammonia smell like - herschel infrared heater home assistant
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#915Three 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…
The one thing I can’t quit is Google Photos. I might give apple photos another go, but it really was subpar a year ago. Anyone else struggled to leave google photos?
I switched to https://ente.io/ a couple of months ago. I used Google Takeout to grab my bits and imported it into ente.
Some massaging was needed of the takeout data to remove some dupes but uploading was smooth and the UI is pretty good.
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That list mostly seems a bit odd. This Windows computer doesn't force reboots (though it does nag me), it hasn't tried to trick me to upgrade to 11, it isn't sending telemetry to MS, it has never forced me to sign up for a non-local account. I think it does force security updates on me, which I think is clearly pro-user , though arguably not respectful. I also decided to use Edge to access my job's shitty Outlook stu…
Previously when I installed Windows, I had the option to create a local account. I had to click on a few misdirections but I was able to do it. Recently though, I had to reinstall Windows to do something, and I could not find a way to create a local account at all. AFAIK they removed the option now, or made it much harder to find.
I did a Windows reinstall on a Surface in the Spring, it installed with no MS Account.
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#917Bizarrely, many search engines seem to think it would be helpful to truncate the titles of search results. For example, the example search "python exceptions" suggested by Kagi on their homepage results in:
> How to Handle Exceptions in Python: A Detailed Visual...
A search on DuckDuckGo displays the complete title.
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Maybe "Like __ when it was great but paying for it" should be the new "Like Uber but for __".
I think that the problem is that a lot of vendors grossly overestimate their value - like NYTimes with their subscription. I am totally willing to pay for what they earn from me from ads and 10c on top of that monthly. But they want order of magnitude more.
Because essentially you’re paying for the free users as well.
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Right, but then it doesn’t make sense for me as one of those information workers to pay for it. It’s not clear that I can get $120/year of value out of it.
Why isn't it clear? You can try it for free, or even pay for just a month in order to see if the quality is good enough. Then you know for sure if it's worth the price or if it isn't.
Because unless my salary increases by more than $120 as a direct result of using Kagi, it’s not a good use of my money. It’s the same reason I don’t pay for nicer chairs in my office.
If a better search engine makes employees more productive, the target customer is the business, not the employee.
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#920I recall hearing that Google and Bing have a nearly insurmountable lead in terms of raw ability to index the web, and that all other "alternative" search engines are using Google and/or Bing under the hood. Is this the case for Kagi? Or is Kagi actually maintaining and drawing upon their own independent index?