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Re: Back to Kagi

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post #75

I've asked a number of times on HN threads for specific examples of searches that Kagi performs better on than DDG or Google, and never gotten a solid reply. It seems what people like about Kagi is the customization and surrounding tooling, but the actual search quality is about the same or possibly worse. That's cool, but I don't find it worth the cash personally.

I invite you to spend 10$ to try Kagi for 1 month. Try these features: - Custom CSS. - Personalized search result: pin / block / raise / lower website on result. - Assistant: try the standard Assistant with Kiki K2.6 (reasoning), try to create custom assistant... Kagi is a product package provides premium experience in retrieving knowledge from the Internet, it's not only search. No word can exchange for a personal e…

> I invite you to spend 10$ to try Kagi for 1 month.

What a generous invitation!

Re: Back to Kagi

#262
post #75

I've asked a number of times on HN threads for specific examples of searches that Kagi performs better on than DDG or Google, and never gotten a solid reply. It seems what people like about Kagi is the customization and surrounding tooling, but the actual search quality is about the same or possibly worse. That's cool, but I don't find it worth the cash personally.

Hey, here's one, search for "smbc comics".

Kagi top 5 results: smbc-comics.com, wikipedia, smbc author's patreon, gocomics, instagram

Google top 5 results: wikipedia, twitter, instagram, reddit, gocomic

DDG top 5 results: smbc-comics.com, a specific smbc-comics.com comic, gocomics, wikipedia, some listicle about smbc comics from a site I've never heard of

The Kagi results here seem pretty clearly better than the other two. smbc-comics.com doesn't seem to ever show up on Google. (I clicked through to page 10 of results.)

Re: Back to Kagi

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You undervalue our collective momentum. The speed with which many of us respond when a tech company does something really stupid is a key reason that things are not even shitter.

What's your favourite software? Linux? You know when Linus dies it'll just get absorbed by IBM, right?

Arch, btw.
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