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Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by anon-3988 »

cwsx wrote: post #21

I switched to them a few months ago, I was previously using duckduckgo (and Google before that). As most of you have probably noticed Google search results have seriously dropped in quality the last few years, but especially in 2023. I'm no longer able to get meaningful results for almost any topic, especially if it's technical, the only results are AI generated (?) / obvious SEO spam websites. It takes me multiple d…

> I wouldn't call myself a power user of Kagi, but even then I'm getting far better results than other search engines, definitely worth the price per month.

This only works as long as Kagi is a niche. The moment any search engine becomes commonplace I think they will inevitably succumb to SEO. Otherwise, they would have to change their methodologies every once in a while to completely flip the ecosystem.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

outlore wrote: post #43
Vegenoid wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Especially ones that do not have their name. As someone who has heard about Kagi, but not actually visited their site or used it, I had no idea they had a dog mascot. If I saw one of those shirts in the wild, and I hadn’t just read this post and seen the pictures of the shirts, I would have had no idea it was a Kagi shirt.

Having received many t shirts from companies and conferences, I mostly don't wear them if the branding is really over the top. As described, a Kagi shirt would be something I'd actually wear

There was a hilarious blog post on here a few months ago from some guy who collects database company T shirts. A lot of them are quite bad but a few are really good. IIRC his favorite was from Snowflake.

Edit: apparently his favorite was from mongo: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2016/07/my-favorite-datab... which I have to agree with, that is a good shirt.

I think I might still like the Snowflake one (3) the best though. Although rereading the article he says there is writing on the back of the Snowflake one which makes me not like it as much. There are very few stylish shirts I enjoy that have writing on the back of them.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

#93

Post by PKop »

freediver wrote: post #78
ketzo wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly I think the whole "we are a startup search engine company who decided to spend the time to set up a production chain for t-shirts" is a worse use of resources than the actual money spent.

We are only humans, and we have a mountain to climb. Setting a base camp to pause and reflect on what we already achieved makes climbing that mountain more, not less, likely. Besides, there is no rush. We might as well enjoy the journey.

The shirts probably won't fit people that well. It just seems like a waste of time/money that nobody will really see value in (I'm a paying customer btw). But if it's more for "you" than the customer then that is a better way to frame it.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by smsm42 »

Vegenoid wrote: post #22
Kerrick wrote: post #4

As a Kagi customer, I hope their choice to allocate nearly a third of their investor-raised funds to produce and freely distribute 20,000 t-shirts doesn’t lead to their demise.

Especially ones that do not have their name. As someone who has heard about Kagi, but not actually visited their site or used it, I had no idea they had a dog mascot. If I saw one of those shirts in the wild, and I hadn’t just read this post and seen the pictures of the shirts, I would have had no idea it was a Kagi shirt.

Looked at the shirt, it looks pretty nice. Definitely something I'd wear and not feel like I am a walking ad.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by fullshark »

sp332 wrote: post #82
fullshark wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Our designer insisted the Kagi logo is "anchored" in the letter "g," and we had to agree. Huh what am I missing? I have no idea what this link is trying to say.

If you look at the kagi logo, the g is much more attention-getting and memorable than the k.

I don't even see a K!

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

#96

Post by calvinmorrison »

anon-3988 wrote: post #91
cwsx wrote: post #21

I switched to them a few months ago, I was previously using duckduckgo (and Google before that). As most of you have probably noticed Google search results have seriously dropped in quality the last few years, but especially in 2023. I'm no longer able to get meaningful results for almost any topic, especially if it's technical, the only results are AI generated (?) / obvious SEO spam websites. It takes me multiple d…

> I wouldn't call myself a power user of Kagi, but even then I'm getting far better results than other search engines, definitely worth the price per month. This only works as long as Kagi is a niche. The moment any search engine becomes commonplace I think they will inevitably succumb to SEO. Otherwise, they would have to change their methodologies every once in a while to completely flip the ecosystem.

SEO should be called "GEO", it's google optimization. Spam keyword blogsites only work because google prioritizes that stuff. They're driven by ad revenue so they're incentivized to show commerical sites over non commercial ones, etc. ,etc, etc.,etc.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

#97

Post by pcchristie »

It's funny, Kagi has almost been worth it just to allow me to prioritise Wikipedia results which for literally 80-90% of my searches is all I'm really looking for. Wikipedia has seemingly been relegated to the 8th or 10th result for most Google searches I noticed.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by [deleted] »

anon-3988 wrote: post #91
cwsx wrote: post #21

I switched to them a few months ago, I was previously using duckduckgo (and Google before that). As most of you have probably noticed Google search results have seriously dropped in quality the last few years, but especially in 2023. I'm no longer able to get meaningful results for almost any topic, especially if it's technical, the only results are AI generated (?) / obvious SEO spam websites. It takes me multiple d…

> I wouldn't call myself a power user of Kagi, but even then I'm getting far better results than other search engines, definitely worth the price per month. This only works as long as Kagi is a niche. The moment any search engine becomes commonplace I think they will inevitably succumb to SEO. Otherwise, they would have to change their methodologies every once in a while to completely flip the ecosystem.

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