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Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by eitland »

freediver wrote: post #70
mbb70 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI your "Why pay for search" and "FAQ" links on https://kagi.com/pricing are broken, perhaps another refactoring victim?

Thanks, will be sorted out.

And this is the second major reason why I use Kagi:

If I notice something is wrong I can report it and expect to have a developer look into it within reasonable time.

They are grateful for reports from users and if there is an actual problem (and not a misunderstanding) it is also fixed, again with a reasonable.

(The first major reason for me is premium search quality, no tracking probably comes at a distant third or something.)

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by eitland »

carlosjobim wrote: post #109
digging wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my approach too, I've found that it's quite easy to bookmark pages liberally and then I can just locally search my bookmarks from the URL bar.

Doesn't your history already fill in this? Why the need to bookmark?

Not everyone uses Firefox.

On Chrome I think it is optimized so it always askes Google first.

Otherwise how would Google know all the pages you visit, and especially the ones you visit most?

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by eitland »

digging wrote: post #106
gspencley wrote: post #101

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> instead it feels like the main goal is showing you as much ads as possible and preferably getting you to accidentally click on one. This is an interesting observation given Google's roots. Although it is a different era, where we have ad blockers now, it would be really weird and neat if Google were displaced by a new search engine that did literally the exact same thing Google did in 1998: clean, no-bullshit page…

Unfortunately that's pretty improbable due to Google's dominance and the changes in the tech landscape. When non-computer-literate people are making Google searches every day on their phones because it's pre-installed as the default, that's a difficult fight to win.

People said almost the same about IE I think.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by Zetobal »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #29
manuelmoreale wrote: post #21

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This is so neat! So happy so see the small, independent and more humane web being highlighted. I’m trying to do my part[0] but I have no doubt that a search engine—even if still a niche one— can have a much bigger impact. Really well done Vlad! [0] https://peopleandblogs.com

I kinda wish there was a sort of proper blog-DMOZ. Would make this sort of stuff a lot easier. Right now everyone and their grandma is curating their own blog list. Lots of wasted effort that could be saved by collaborating somehow.

I always thought bookmarking services like delicious or springboard should have done it. Seemed like a natural evolution.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by eitland »

w0mbat wrote: post #76

I find this kind of domain name reuse unsettling: for years, Kagi.com was the address of a payment service for shareware authors. Man those were the days. Lots of people were perfectly willing to pay me $20 for a useful little utility app and now they won't pay $2 in an App Store.

> Lots of people were perfectly willing to pay me $20 for a useful little utility app and now they won't pay $2 in an App Store.

what kind of utilities?

I am happy to pay $2 (or more) for tools I use if it is a one time payment or a payment for tokens (e.g. $n for $m ocr scans, generated images or whatever).

I loathe apps that demand monthly payments unless it is really understandable why they have to have it that way (service that require permanent storage comes to mind, although I think I only use iCloud for storage now).

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by TradingPlaces »

freediver wrote: post #2

Vlad from Kagi here, thanks for posting. The RSS feed unexpectedly broke (edit: the feed is back up! [3]) just as we published the blog post, in the true spirt of "small web" :) Should be up in 30 minutes which will enable the site to function too (it uses the same feed). This has been a personal pet project of mine and I spent considerable time getting my hands dirty with the code, as the team was busy with other in…

Thanks Vlad. Another great feature.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by snvzz »

Sebguer wrote: post #127

I'm interested in the mental gymnastics around how this kind of content manipulation is okay but the suggestion of inserting a suicide hotline at the top of search results around 'how to kill myself' was too political? https://kagifeedback.org/d/865-suicide-results-should-probab...

Realize that people actually pay to NOT get the same results as google.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#129

Post by packetlost »

iruoy wrote: post #85
packetlost wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ability to block SEO garbage sites like GeeksForGeeks and not filling the first 3-5 results with ads is worth it alone. Not to mention the ability to boost certain sites results over others on a personalized level. Unfortunately for me, I end up regularly going over the "Pro" tier of searches a month (partially because I accidentally search all the time, but also I'm heavy search-engine user) is a bit of a letdow…

> I end up regularly going over the "Pro" tier of searches a month I'm now halfway through my billing period (22 aug - 21 sep) and I'm on 488 searches. Would be tight on the pro plan (1000 searches), but I'm still on the early adopter pro plan (1500 searches).

I'd consider the unmetered plan, but I have little interest in the AI tools and $20/m is steep

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by skyyler »

carlosjobim wrote: post #109
digging wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my approach too, I've found that it's quite easy to bookmark pages liberally and then I can just locally search my bookmarks from the URL bar.

Doesn't your history already fill in this? Why the need to bookmark?

Bookmarks are like history that doesn't roll away.
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