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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 caddy »

jsnell wrote: post #205
caddy wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, the quality has slipped somewhat but I do believe the choice was in part due to the way cheaper offering by Brave, as after the change (or with it), they brought back $10/mo unlimited. Looking at brave's pricing, they do it based on reqs/sec + limit/month and it's way cheaper ($5/mo sub = 20mil searches, $0.00000025 a search if maxing it out) - This is based on the data for AI plan which is $5/mo rather than…

I'm pretty sure you're misreading the pricing by multiple orders of magnitude. It is $5/1K queries ($5 CPM), not $5/20M queries.

Oh my, I did think the pricing was a little out of whack. Thanks for the correction.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by syncbehind »

Diti wrote: post #257
syncbehind wrote: post #178

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Why does this matter?

Because people who really need the privacy can be identified. Ideally, you want to help them so that their browsing don’t stand out (so that their browsing and yours are virtually the same).

I mean, isn't the only way to go about that to be completely vanilla or do what the masses do, then? Because if you start blocking all these cookies, canvas, javascript, etc- won't your browser's fingerprint be even more unique since you'd be the only one who's traffic data would be incomplete?

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by pbronez »

VapidLinus wrote: post #221
theshrike79 wrote: post #209

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!expert takes me to https://www.expert.nl/ ...

!expert only works if you have access to the AI features. Right now, only available to users on the Ultimate plan. General release for all subscribers is end of February.

The "!fast" bang is more broadly available. It's faster, as the name implies, and results are still pretty good. It uses smaller models on the back end.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by alabhyajindal »

I love Kagi so much. My favorite features other than great search results are:

- Vim keybindings to select search results.

- Quick bangs to use bang shortcuts without an exclamation mark. Example: search "mdn yield" to directly get search results for "yield" on MDN.

- Blocking sites. No more annoying Quora results.

Kagi team cares deeply about the product and it shows. They recently added Quick Peek [0] to search results and it's implemented using the `details` element.

[0] https://kagi.com/changelog#2931

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by DanielleMolloy »

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.

There is a good chance that it will remain niche due to the paid and forced-login model. This is a good thing. I hope they will manage to position themselves well as an alternative search engine with clean, unmanipulated results; and be careful about unhealthy (greedy) growth.

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by stupidog »

jks wrote: post #193
yellow_lead wrote: post #192

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If they will print 20k no matter what, I'm curious how they'll determine what sizes to print.

"Sizes are first come first serve" so I suppose they estimate how many of each size they need and then let people get a shirt as long as their size is available.

pats belly get those xl's ready

Re: Kagi search reached 20k paying members

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Post by stupidog »

ketzo wrote: post #67
cdata wrote: post #23

I'm a happy paying customer. Kagi is the first non-Google search engine I've used where I don't feel the need to constantly cross-check the results with Google. For all the people gawking at the expense of the free t-shirts: AFAICT those of us who are receiving them are paying customers; it's not like the money is coming right off of the top of their venture funds.

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.

Well, at least it wasn't drugs.
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