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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 spondyl »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #148
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've been curious for a while too and I've been trying to de-google myself a tiny bit each year (more or less dropped Chrome in 2023). Once I actually grab a full time job again I wouldn't mind grabbing my own subscription here to try it out. I'm curious if 300 searches/month is truly enough for me, though. And what would happen if I go over that rate. Am I simply unable to search more for that month?

Yeah, once you hit the free limit, you get served a subscription wall once you try to do a search

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by viraptor »

rbits wrote: post #49
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.

Yeah, no one's going to wear a shirt that says Kagi on it. They'll wear a shirt with the mascot on it though

You're way too sure about other people's choices. I'd totally wear one.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by viraptor »

andrethegiant wrote: post #109

> 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.

Carbon offsets are not a great idea: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed...

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by themadturk »

cdata wrote: post #41
tremarley wrote: post #27

Freely distributing 20,000 t-shirts to your first 20,000 customers is a nice reward. But Kagi is missing an opportunity for a huge brand awareness campaign from this. People who are already really happy with Kagi would become brand ambassadors. Why isn’t the name ‘Kagi’ found anywhere on the t-shirt design? People who want to know where it’s from would have to go out of the way to ask the tee wearer.

FWIW I'm way more likely to wear a t-shirt that doesn't have the word "Kagi" on it.

I'm not much for graphic tees either, but doggo is cute, and I'd wear one.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by themadturk »

whalesalad wrote: post #123

Inb4 Google acquires them. I’m a paying customer and digging it. DuckDuckGo despite their privacy claims was (ironically) hanging hard for me due to blocked domains in pihole. Jumped to Kagi and have been pretty happy ever since. Just wish there was better safari integration - their extension perma bricked safari on my MacBook and despite being a Unix hacker for dang near 20 years I haven’t found the right library pa…

Huh...Kagi works great in Safari on my 2020 M1 MBA. I did try their browser for a while, but there were too many sites that didn't quite work for me.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by miohat »

thegeekpirate wrote: post #141
anon-3988 wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is true, I really wish I can tell Google to simply filter out learncpp.com and some other websites.

You can with browser extensions, fwiw.

uBlacklist can only block sites. But Kagi can raise or lower sites in pagerank, and can pin sites on the top. Boosting sites up in the result is more efficient than blocking spam sites one by one.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by sp332 »

OJFord wrote: post #115
fullshark wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't even see a K!

Took me a while too, I think GP and the text about the designer considering where the 'logo' is anchored in designing the, err, 'logo' are talking about the full name as shown at https://kagi.com/assets at the top. I don't know where else that's used though. It's definitely confusing to call it a logo in talking about designing the logo (let's say icon) though. Mind you before seeing that about the 'g' I thought the…

Yeah, that. "Wordmark".

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by justinclift »

LargeTomato wrote: post #89
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 just signed up. You get 100 searches for free to try it out.

Small warning. If you click the "more" button at the bottom of a list of results, it silently does another search and deducts that from your remaining free searches.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by beej71 »

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.

If that SEO means removing ads and tracking from your page to get a higher rank, I'm cool with it. :)

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by justinclift »

diggan wrote: post #64
thfuran wrote: post #47

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But would that make it effective advertising?

But isn't the goal of the t-shirt a gift for the first 20k paying users? The goal for them doesn't seem to be about what they get back from giving away the t-shirt.

That sounds pretty silly.

Shouldn't gifts and similar things come after the business is properly sustainable?

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