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Kagi is worth every penny. Been using it for 6 months as my primary search engine. I think I have used the Google !g 10 or so times in that period maybe?
Yeah I see similarities to marginalia, but it’s great to have multiple services for the small web.
I need to get my website on the lists asap!
not that it matters since the old web wasn't good. it was as terrible as now. the UI of absolutely every website ever made has been terrible quirky garbage compared to something like windows 98. Even back then there was a massive difference going from windows 98 (sane GUI) to web (garbage hackjob GUI + ads (YES REMEMBER 40 POPUPS? ADS? TOOLBARS? THE OLD WEB WAS NOT GOOD IT WAS A HELL JUST LIKE NOW)).
the content was never good either. every topic discussed on the web is little cliques who believe some easy to digest nonsense and then if you go skim some books on the subject the meta is completely different. except programming since that just centers around the web [1]. think of anything else like cooking or engineering
the web is a terrible protocol that should have died 20 years ago and been replaced with something that was modern at the time like freenet (and they should have made an alternative to html etc).
1. and this is ironic too since programming is the one field that is steered by the web's body of pseudoknowledge and as a result you have people who think C, PHP, and OOP are legitimate programming practices.
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Have you tried adding a custom bang like !fr? Point it to: https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&r=fr Where `fr` is the region code
Oh, that's a great idea, I never thought of that. Thank you.
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…
It's expensive enough that I can't imagine anyone repackaging it profitably (2x Bing search prices for me) but having to email someone adds just enough friction to discourage a lot of tinkerers from even trying it.
Well this is disappointing. It's no harder to curate other languages. You're just say you don't care.
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Music streaming is such a mess. I've tried a ton of services in an attempt to find one that's decent, and have found embarrassing problems for all of them. Spotify: Really hostile, manipulative, and terrible to artists. On my end I hate how commercial the homescreen is, and the CarPlay interface is just a user-hostile to a degree that is frankly unsafe disaster. TIDAL: Pretty good in a lot of ways. They pay their art…
> The Windows apps are terrible (like flat out embarrassing), and the Linux apps are non-existent, but luckily there's a pretty great open source app called Cider that solves that. This is what blocked me from trying Apple Music as well. Maybe i'll give Cider a look, thanks!
It's a great desktop client.
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…
Semi-unrelated, but is there any reason you don't make your search API as turn key as the other APIs? It's expensive enough that I can't imagine anyone repackaging it profitably (2x Bing search prices for me) but having to email someone adds just enough friction to discourage a lot of tinkerers from even trying it.
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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…
Imagine getting that level of support for any other web browser!