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Kagi and Wolfram

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Re: Kagi and Wolfram

#101
post #19

I’ve spent money on things because I had to, I’ve spent money because I wanted to. I have rarely spent money on something because the idea just sounded good and been so consistently pleased with what I received for my investment. It’s not free, but Kagi is a small investment for a vastly improved (and customizable) search experience.

Best $10 I spend every month.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

#102
post #36

Did kagi recently (past 12 months) add the unlimited plan? Last time I checked even my human search usage was way beyond their limits (Google regularly accuses me of being a bot!), and my primary interest was in 100Xing that volume with autonomous agents. Now it says unlimited, but I'm not sure "you and a swarm of a thousand digital clones" counts as fair use...

There was actually an outage due to this (their first major outage!) a few weeks ago. Someone was scraping via their API a little too hard, which had unexpected effects on upstream systems. So 100x human search volume is likely to be an issue unless you discuss it with the devs first.

The page with the post-mortem for that outage now gives a 404 error, but was archived by the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20240121000935/https://status.ka...

(It was discussed on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39019119)

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

#103
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mobile Firefox allows it.

you have to love that the GP says "browsers like Chrome don't allow" and the two responses under it are "Safari does" and "mobile Firefox does" -- literally the only other browsers in the mobile ecosystem maybe this limitation isn't "browsers like Chrome". Maybe it's JUST CHROME with the limitation, because Chrome sucks, and has for awhile now. It's almost like the developer of Chrome doesn't want you to use a differ…

It's true on Brave, too. When I said "like Chrome" that's what I meant.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

#104
post #19

I’ve spent money on things because I had to, I’ve spent money because I wanted to. I have rarely spent money on something because the idea just sounded good and been so consistently pleased with what I received for my investment. It’s not free, but Kagi is a small investment for a vastly improved (and customizable) search experience.

But how will you live with yourself when every search for library documentation or a programming language doesn't flood the first page with expertsexchange, w3schools, geeksforgeeks, favtutor, freecodecamp, and a pile of other tissue-thin content covered with popups?

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

#105
So.... this is about a pay-subscription search engine called 'Kagi' out of Palo Alto, founded 2018.

Made me think and have to do some digging for the 'Kagi' out of Berkeley founded in the 90s where you could register your shareware purchases in the days before PayPal. Which seems to have been largely scrubbed from history outside of some WayBack snapshots.

https://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/01/kagi-shuts-down/

https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

#106
post #33

Why am I starting to see a lot of promotional statements within HN? Are there any bot or some army of manual labor around?

Kagi just happens to be pretty popular here, it's how I found out about it.

>Kagi just happens to be pretty popular here

_Pretty_ popular?

Outside of Rust, Kagi might have the most fanatic following of any topic on HN. Which, while I'm sure Kagi is very happy with, is really rather annoying as a someone who doesn't care for it. Every conversation search-adjacent is just comments of "I pay for Kagi and it was the best dollars I've ever spent".

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

#107
post #104
post #19

I’ve spent money on things because I had to, I’ve spent money because I wanted to. I have rarely spent money on something because the idea just sounded good and been so consistently pleased with what I received for my investment. It’s not free, but Kagi is a small investment for a vastly improved (and customizable) search experience.

But how will you live with yourself when every search for library documentation or a programming language doesn't flood the first page with expertsexchange, w3schools, geeksforgeeks, favtutor, freecodecamp, and a pile of other tissue-thin content covered with popups?

medium is the 2024 expertsexchange

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

#108
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are built-in bangs for reddit, and users can prioritize reddit.com as a domain if they'd like.

Not only that, but you can make it rewrite all reddit links to use old.reddit.com

I do the same for Youtube links to Invidious.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

#109
post #83

Wolfram Alpha still has the same old bug: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2016-04-04+to+2019-01-3... = 2 years 9 months 27 days https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2019-01-31+to+2016-04-0... = 2 years 9 months 26 days The duration should be identical but is off by one day. One day a space mission will fail due to this bug. Reported several times, they never cared.

Both show 1032 days. Do space missions depend on such fuzzy defined time stamps as (calendar?) months? I think time dilation would be a much more serious factor.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

#110
post #83

Wolfram Alpha still has the same old bug: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2016-04-04+to+2019-01-3... = 2 years 9 months 27 days https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2019-01-31+to+2016-04-0... = 2 years 9 months 26 days The duration should be identical but is off by one day. One day a space mission will fail due to this bug. Reported several times, they never cared.

Is that a bug? I interpret it as from midnight 2016-04-04 to the first time which has the date 2019-01-31. That includes the full day of 2016-04-04 but nothing from 2019-01-31. This is contrasted with the opposite direction which is midnight 2019-01-31 going backwards, thus not including 2019-01-31 and all the way up till the first time which is 2016-04-04 non-inclusive.

Date time arithmetic is weird ;)

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