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Re: Kagi Magic

#21
Early adopter and subscriber (I think I saw the link here on HN), have been happily paying for 4 years now.

It does one job and does it well, and you have additional features if you want/need to configure them or tweak the results to your liking.

AI is an add-on that you can elect to use or not, and I enjoy just adding a "?" at the end and getting a proper AI response instead of an hallucinated AI summary by default that covers the entire page.

Re: Kagi Magic

#22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more of a pitch. It's something you can share with your friends to show them why they might like Kagi. It's not exactly something for marketers to put in front of strangers, like normal ads.

So it’s an ad that you want me to distribute? I’m a big fan of Kagi but I don’t know that it belongs here.

It's not that either. I just explained what it is. It's for those who already want to share Kagi with others, and who didn't have a good way to pitch it before. It's not really an advertisement to those who don't already have a Kagi advocate locally. It's also not really "wanting" you to distribute anything. It's merely a convenience that is available. That's all.

Re: Kagi Magic

#23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, it is an ad.

It's more of a pitch. It's something you can share with your friends to show them why they might like Kagi. It's not exactly something for marketers to put in front of strangers, like normal ads.

I’m glad we could establish the ad is wearing a hat.

https://youtu.be/lC5lsemxaJo

Re: Kagi Magic

#24
I'm a teacher. Our kids are using Chromebooks, and we want them to do research projects, but we don't want them using AI. Unfortunately with Google, it's impossible not to get AI answers. As far as we know, there's no clean way to filter out the Gemini garbage. I wonder if Kagi has considered making an educational pricing model, and letting our kids get away from AI.

Of course, the "Chromebook" part of my statement above is probably a hint that getting rid of Gemini won't be as simple as changing the default search engine...

Re: Kagi Magic

#26
post #15

>Today it's AI overviews you can't switch off. i might be a minority but ai overviews are genuinely very cool. they are promoting the "you can turn them off" as a feature, but what is actually lacking is the ability to "turn them on by default". in like 90% of my queries i DO want an ai overview. but in kagi it's tucked away behind a button, you can very easily burn through your allowance, and the models they have ar…

You can manually trigger the quick answer by ending your query with a question mark.

ending every single one of them with a question mark gets pretty annoying pretty fast

Re: Kagi Magic

#27
post #4

What about Yandex?

For context - I assume this comment is referring to Kagi still paying Yandex to use their index. I've collected some links here last time this was discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057759

Yes! Thanks!

Re: Kagi Magic

#28

Kagi: The search engine priced for Silicon Valley software engineers. Apparently it has enough customers to keep the doors open though.

You either pay with your wallet, or you pay with you time, attention and advertising profiles created around you. $120 is about 2 hours of my time, Kagi easily saves me that in a year through it's ability to block sites, no ads, ans no having to worry about my searches being saved forever and sold to insurance and future employers.

Re: Kagi Magic

#29
I'd love to pay for this service, I really do. But I can't. Since it's American, and me and my team have vowed to not use American for new projects, and wean other parts off and away from USA tech and services.

There is a clear open market in the EU for such a service.

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