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Kagi Small Web
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny to look back and recall how useful web search actually was at one point. Ahh the good old days.
The enshittification of everything has really put a damper on the technological optimism that seemed to be the norm back then.
We had the tech we were always promised and then it got taken away, for... reasons.
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#113The first random page it returned to me was this — https://gaultier.github.io/blog/how_to_make_your_own_static_... — which was about building one's own static site generator, which I really liked. I did not realise when I closed that page how hard it would be to find it again, because, of course every new visit to Kagi returns a different page :-)
yeah, same happened to me, the first site I was sent to was a list of people sending in random "sunday thoughts" (or whatever it was called) on (actual physical) postcards which then got scanned and posted. There were some good things in there. Now I can't find that site again because I didn't realize it was randomized...
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#114I'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,…
The only thing that seems to have gotten a lot worse is the trend of ai articles- which isn't kagi's fault but it would be nice if they could figure out how to filter them. They all follow the same patter- "specific thing you want" with a table of contents with loads of repeated chapters and unrelated information, spattered with effectively random images.
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#115I'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 really loved Kagi and was a paid customer for close to two years. But sadly this year I wont be renewing my plan.
Kagi made search feel just “right” it was simple, got the job done and had some really simple but cool search features.
But over time they started doing way too much, and I kept seeing more and more features that I really didn't want. It felt like I was paying for all this while I just wanted to type something on to a text box and click search and see a bunch of results organized according to my filters.
I wish they would just dump all the other nonsense projects like ai and just focus on search only. Or give me an option to pay for search only without any limits.
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#116I'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 found kagi lacking and very limited unless i paid. Even with a paid sub it didnt feel like good value.
Im using qwant now and i feel its better.
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#117I thought this was going to be about payment processing for shareware applications.
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#118StumbleUpon is that you? Jokes aside, it's really nice and I can totally see becoming addictive. Kudos to Kagi team for an other user oriented product. (as a side note, I am using Kagi daily and i didn't know about this tool)
Im surprised nobody has mentioned cloudhiker which is made to be like stumbleupon.
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#119Could've at least checked if the website even allows embedding before embedding it, I found two by randomly clicking around that don't.
Yeah, many links in the embedded blog posts don't work either, presumably because the target website doesn't allow embedding. On mobile I always have to open them in a new tab for them to work.
Some browsers actually block embedded pages. Lots of mozilla based browsers will.
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#120I'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 have had a great experience. I can find what I'm looking for and I can block or down-rank sites that are constantly shite.
I did find that Google over the past few years has sucked but my Google results were always miles better than most peoples until a couple years ago.
It's interesting to hear that you can't find what you wanted easily on Kagi.