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Re: Try Switching to Kagi

#91

I find it a little surprising that the famous apple blogger neglects to mention that Apple makes it hard to use a search engine like Kagi on iOS!

I find it a little surprising that the blog famously censored by HN is still able to land on the first page of HN

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

#92

> no unwanted AI (but very good AI results if you want — just end your query with a question mark) TIL! I'm a paying Kagi user and I didn't even know this feature existed.

Also worth noting, the Kagi assistant is now available to all paid Kagi users. This gives you conversational chat with a few ChatGPT models, Gemini, Llamas, Nova, Deepseek, and other.

https://kagi.com/assistant

Additional details on the blog post about it.

https://blog.kagi.com/assistant-for-all

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

#93
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> how it's impossible to get Google to show English results in a non-English-speaking country It's ridiculous because there's even a language option in the search settings, but it does nothing . I had to change my country to United States just to get it to stop giving me non-English technical documentation and wiki articles. But that means in order to get local results for stores etc I have to use Bing/DDG instead. D…

In Kagi you can search with a specific country selected or the default "international". I find it a superior alternative to Googles "wherever you are", but I do a lot of multilingual searches. For example, when I'm searching for french recipes, I don't want crappy American SEO optimized recipe agregators. Selecting the country I live in brings up local laws instead of stuff from other (bigger) countries where the sam…

One thing Google does which I like is that I don't have to fiddle with region dropdowns. I just drop in a keyword in my local language and it knows to switch the results sources.

Kagi should be able to do that nicely, though I'm not gonna suggest anything on their feedback forum, that's already backlogged to the brim.

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

#94
I jumped to Kagi early on. I was on a friend's machine the other day, and without thinking, ran a default search ... in Google, and wow. Just, wow.

What an appalling waste of electrons. First, non-advert (labelled, and non-labelled) on page 3.

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

#95

For those of us who have moved the vast majority of our Google searches to ChatGPT / only use Google periodically for one-off questions, is there still a reason to switch to Kagi?

how do you tolerate the sheer latency of running the "vast majority" of your web searches through an llm

The LLM can read through the results quicker than you can and provide the information you were looking for.

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

#96
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

how do you tolerate the sheer latency of running the "vast majority" of your web searches through an llm

How many searches previously to find the right question to ask x search time = total_search_time # of searches is lower, total-search_time drops

For me ChatGPT is great when I don’t really know what I don’t know. I still end up having to do a google search after to verify that the AI result isn’t insane. So for me ChatGPT often is just adding an extra step.

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

#97
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No, thanks, I'll stick to qwant: https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1gvcqua/psa_the_ka...

Is there any sensible explanation why Kagi does funding Yandex? It seems weird to me.

Yandex isn't on any sanctions list as far as I know, so Kagi is free to do business with Yandex. Yandex did need to reorganize (as their Dutch tax avoidance parent company was obviously causing them issues) but looking at https://ir.yandex/press-releases?year=2024&id=05-02-2024 it seems like all of Yandex has been sold to a generic Russian investment fund.

Legally, Kagi can buy access to Yandex' API. Whether they should is a matter of opinion. It's the main reason I haven't tried Kagi yet, and probably never will, as the owners don't seem to have a problem with any of it.

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

#98
I pay for family plan. It is a little steep to pay $20/month but does mean I feel much better about my 12 year old using a search engine unsupervised (I use controld for blocking/monitoring, have windows 11 locked down as well as iOS locked down too).

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

#99

> no unwanted AI (but very good AI results if you want — just end your query with a question mark) TIL! I'm a paying Kagi user and I didn't even know this feature existed.

This is one of my favourite features. The UX is so god damn simple that it makes switching to an AI response so ridiculously trivial, I love it.
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