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Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

#101
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…

Google Search is a victim of its own success.

They are the biggest search engine; every SEO trick, every spam attack is spearheaded against them. But also being the biggest and the inevitable, they can afford to blunt their search tool somehow in order to show more lucrative sort-of-hits and sell more ads. A moral hazard to do such a thing is always present fr any market-dominating player.

Kagi, in comparison, is tiny, and almost nobody cares to attack their algorithms. Back in 1990s, when Macs were a small minority in the PC-dominated world, they were the safest desktop machines, because almost nobody cared to write malware for them. Now that Macs are a sizable segment of computers in hands of important people, they are targeted by malware all right.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

#102
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…

The question to about the obvious quality drop for Google is, Is this intentional? Perhaps some cost saving or ROI measures? Or the motive always was to just train their AI and we just helped with that?

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

#103
post #65

I've long been suspicious that google doesn't want you to get an answer too quickly, or you'll go off google and back to whatever you were previously doing, thus they furnish you fewer ads and make less ad revenue. Curious to know if kagi or any of its users have tried to quantify how much more quickly they get answers to search queries. Even if it only saves 10 minutes a month, it could be worth switching.

It's highly likely the site they go to will have Google's ads on it so they aren't really losing out. AdSense has 90% market share according to a couple sources I read (which I searched for using Kagi).

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

#104
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.

I didn't see published costs on the link, but it did mention the shirts were produced in Serbia... I imagine at a substantially lower cost than your assumption of full retail per shirt..

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

#107
It is so awesome to be able to put `!code` or `!expert` At the beginning of my search query and hit enter and have an AI do research for me with the query as the prompt. It doesn't interrupt my flow anymore to get AI insight. It's a game changer, a lot like github co-pilot was for me.

As to the search results, it's always as good or better as Google. Sometimes I checked Google results just to make sure.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

#108
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.

They might think it's free advertising, but I only wear t-shirts to bed or on the weekends and vacations. Most of the time I wear button-ups or polos. Them sending me a free t-shirt isn't going to get them as much advertising as they hoped for.
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