Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

Post by xigoi » Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 8:43 AM UTC

carlossouza wrote: post #121

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…

I also stopped using Google, but I have replaced it with Perplexity.ai... Have you ever used Perplexity? How does Kagi compare with it?

Post by xigoi » Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 9:05 AM UTC

loehnsberg wrote: post #819

thebytefairy wrote: post #650

Kagi seems cool, but I haven't felt that google search is so bad that I'd pay ~120/year for search. I think Google's also heard the discontent around search results lately and has been trying to improve - eg. I get relevant Reddit results now without needing to specify that into my query. I personally haven't found cases where the results are so bad I would rather start paying, but would be interested to hear specifi…

The thing is you ARE paying for search but do not know how much, because you will never know where a targeted ad nudged you to pay a little markup for something that you bought. I prefer to pay for the services that I use with money rather than with my personal data, which may be used against mine or my fellow citizen‘s interest.

Post by iamjkt » Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 9:13 AM UTC

illiac786 wrote: post #928

iamjkt wrote: post #915

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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.

with E2EE, I guess there is no search? I find this to be the single biggest limitation of proton mail for example. I find the ability to search for faces and objects a key element. Otherwise my photos just collect dust (figuratively).

Post by illiac786 » Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 10:09 AM UTC

iamjkt wrote: post #935

illiac786 wrote: post #928

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with E2EE, I guess there is no search? I find this to be the single biggest limitation of proton mail for example. I find the ability to search for faces and objects a key element. Otherwise my photos just collect dust (figuratively).

Search is fine for my uses. It doesn't have the facial recognition to quickly search for all photos of a person but it looks to be tagging things in an accepta le manner and I've found the things I've been looking for. I used their free trial - 1Gb of storage available for a year iirc - to try out a few things but then ran in parallel for a while and now have stopped syncing my new photos to Google. Good luck with wh…

Post by laserlight » Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 10:21 AM UTC

mrAssHat wrote: post #634

laserlight wrote: post #577

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I had to quit doing so, because I discovered that it didn't just exclude listed domains, but performed a totally different search. Locations or local results were largely missing, when I excluded some domains.

That's curious, please expand on this. Do you really mean it performed a search for different thing? If so - have you figured how it differed? Or did it just have to perform a non-cached search and thus not only excluded said domains, but could also reorder the other results based on the current relevance, rather than cached relevance from the past that is being served to everyone else who doesn't exclude said domain…