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!
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#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.
Additional details on the blog post about it.
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#93Earlier 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…
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.
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#94What an appalling waste of electrons. First, non-advert (labelled, and non-labelled) on page 3.
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#95For 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
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#96Earlier 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
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#97No, 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.
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.
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#98Re: 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.