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I just cracked open with this comment. How do you drop that out of the blue without even bothering to make an argument?
Kagi search reached 20k paying members
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Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members
#132I pay for it.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Not necessarily. You'll still be able to nuke the whole domain from your results, permanently. That means you'll see the spam once, and getting a new domain promoted to the top takes time and effectively money. I also hope that domains which get blocked by lots of people will get reviewed for global downranking, but I don't think that's happening yet?
That is true, I really wish I can tell Google to simply filter out learncpp.com and some other websites.
Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members
#134As 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.
I’ve used Kagi as my default search engine for months and wasn’t aware it had a dog mascot either! I’ll probably turn the shirt into some word-of-mouth marketing at my gym, so I wouldn’t say my free shirt is a terrible investment.
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#135I 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?
Just perverse incentives.
Google isn't incentivized to be a good search engine.
They are incentivized to be just good enough that you don't go elsewhere while increasing the number of ads / paid results.
Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members
#136Congratulations to Kagi. This is by far one of the most useful products I use every day for both work and personal use, and I absolutely adore the small web feature.
Excited to get a few stickers and a shirt as a thank you!
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
"You save 100% of the money you don't waste" - me
"You clothe 0% of the people you don't send shirts to"
"If you search for a search engine but only find the one that gives you a stupid t-shirt - you truly are in need of improving your search abilities"
Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members
#138> Simply put, wearing the Doggo t-shirt is an incredibly awesome experience. Reeks of buyer’s remorse. No one cares about your shirts. Imagine if they used that 200k to buy carbon offsets instead.
Speak for your self. Others want it.
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#139Why is their logo the letter g instead of k? Have they considered the risk of a trademark violation lawsuit from their competitor, Google? As one of the 20K paying members, I feel embarrassed that I hadn't noticed this until now. Because this article presented the idea of wearing a Kagi T-Shirt, I suddenly started to care about what the logo looked like. Also, yes, I am excited to rep Kagi search.
common sensw guys
Google is capital G
Kagi is lower case g
Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members
#140Am I actually reading that they spent 33.33% or $220k of their investor money on printing t shirts?
Would be about one month of their revenue at current if you want to believe my quick estimate.
My understanding is that the vast majority of their revenue is used to pay Google and Microsoft for access to their indexes though.