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Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by 112233 » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC

sodapopcan wrote: post #43

ArtificeAccount wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatever it was called, it was way better than whatever Google is doing currently.

In fairness, there wasn't the level of utter crap back then that there is now. Not that there wasn't a LOT back then, but there is even more now.

How comes yandex.com can show me results that contain my search term? Most egregious example: I am searching for name of abandoned blogspot domain: yandex shows me 1 result, which is that domain. Goolge shows me "no results" fishing monster. Blogspot is google service !!!

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by olejorgenb » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC

ArtificeAccount wrote: post #31

I've been using the Kagi search engine for months now and I'm not impressed. I bought into it because there were a lot of posts saying that it was "just like old Google" but this has not been my experience. It's the same as new Google, you can type in what you're looking for exactly and you'll get random sort-of related websites. I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google,…

Off topic, but ref

"I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google, and get taken to the article you were looking for"

It's funny to me that (to my knowledge) no browser (mainstream?) implement this functionality yet. Seems like a no brainer to index what the user have actually seen... (Could even be restricted based on viewport - I don't think it's that crazy of an idea)

I know there's a a number of third party programs which does though. Of course - multi-device being the norm - complicates things.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by catlover76 » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 1:35 PM UTC

olejorgenb wrote: post #72

ArtificeAccount wrote: post #31

I've been using the Kagi search engine for months now and I'm not impressed. I bought into it because there were a lot of posts saying that it was "just like old Google" but this has not been my experience. It's the same as new Google, you can type in what you're looking for exactly and you'll get random sort-of related websites. I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google,…

Off topic, but ref "I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google, and get taken to the article you were looking for" It's funny to me that (to my knowledge) no browser (mainstream?) implement this functionality yet. Seems like a no brainer to index what the user have actually seen... (Could even be restricted based on viewport - I don't think it's that crazy of an idea) I kn…

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Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by lelanthran » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 1:38 PM UTC

This is fantastic - how long do I have to press F5 before my blog shows up?

:-)

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by BrunoBernardino » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 1:40 PM UTC

ArtificeAccount wrote: post #31

I've been using the Kagi search engine for months now and I'm not impressed. I bought into it because there were a lot of posts saying that it was "just like old Google" but this has not been my experience. It's the same as new Google, you can type in what you're looking for exactly and you'll get random sort-of related websites. I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google,…

I won't add links so it doesn't look like I'm spamming or promoting a service (though I am, but it seems in line with what you're talking about), but there's a product I've built with my wife which has made things a little bit better in our experience because it gives you an option to choose different providers/indexes, thus tailor results to your personal preference. You can find it from my personal website (my username . com).

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by alpineman » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 1:44 PM UTC

ArtificeAccount wrote: post #31

I've been using the Kagi search engine for months now and I'm not impressed. I bought into it because there were a lot of posts saying that it was "just like old Google" but this has not been my experience. It's the same as new Google, you can type in what you're looking for exactly and you'll get random sort-of related websites. I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google,…

Disagree, I love it, at least as good as Google

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by bryanhogan » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 1:48 PM UTC

myth_drannon wrote: post #62

Too many AI or relegion related sites.

Tried it myself, first three I got were also about AI.

Curious if there are any statistics on which topics people are writing about.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by LatticeAnimal » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

alpineman wrote: post #76

ArtificeAccount wrote: post #31

I've been using the Kagi search engine for months now and I'm not impressed. I bought into it because there were a lot of posts saying that it was "just like old Google" but this has not been my experience. It's the same as new Google, you can type in what you're looking for exactly and you'll get random sort-of related websites. I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google,…

Disagree, I love it, at least as good as Google

I think that's the problem. I used to find it far superior to google. Now, there are a lot of queries where I am unimpressed with the results and end up trying google just to get better results. (like I used to do with DDG)

I've had a few experiences now where someone is standing over my shoulder asking me to look something up, and I search kagi, find nothing, then search google and find what they asked me to look up. Then when they ask "what was that other search engine you used first?" I don't feel compelled to vouch for kagi :(.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by hirako2000 » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 1:55 PM UTC

olejorgenb wrote: post #72

ArtificeAccount wrote: post #31

I've been using the Kagi search engine for months now and I'm not impressed. I bought into it because there were a lot of posts saying that it was "just like old Google" but this has not been my experience. It's the same as new Google, you can type in what you're looking for exactly and you'll get random sort-of related websites. I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google,…

Off topic, but ref "I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google, and get taken to the article you were looking for" It's funny to me that (to my knowledge) no browser (mainstream?) implement this functionality yet. Seems like a no brainer to index what the user have actually seen... (Could even be restricted based on viewport - I don't think it's that crazy of an idea) I kn…

That's called search: in history.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by threetonesun » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC

ArtificeAccount wrote: post #31

I've been using the Kagi search engine for months now and I'm not impressed. I bought into it because there were a lot of posts saying that it was "just like old Google" but this has not been my experience. It's the same as new Google, you can type in what you're looking for exactly and you'll get random sort-of related websites. I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google,…

throw a question mark on the end to invoke the AI summary results and I find you can get the thing you're looking for as a reference right away. I've used this to dig up forum posts that are over a decade old multiple times with success. Asking the Kagi Assistant for a list of possible links works pretty well too.

Also on Kagi if you see bad results, you can flag the website to ignore it.