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Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by mock-possum »

olejorgenb wrote: post #72
ArtificeAccount wrote: post #31

I'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,…

Off topic, but ref "I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google, and get taken to the article you were looking for" It's funny to me that (to my knowledge) no browser (mainstream?) implement this functionality yet. Seems like a no brainer to index what the user have actually seen... (Could even be restricted based on viewport - I don't think it's that crazy of an idea) I kn…

> no brainer to index what the user have actually seen... I know there's a a number of third party programs which does though

Which company would you trust with this kind of deep surveillance information on you though?

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by vvilliamperez »

monkey_monkey wrote: post #130
ArtificeAccount wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel the same way. I'm probably going to end my subscription at some point, but right now the effort involved is what's keeping me with Kagi.

"the effort involved" Feels like your comment saying it was too much effort to cancel Kagi took more effort than cancelling Kagi.

Actually their payment model has some baked in niceness.

If you don't use the service in a month, they just refund you. This has kept me from unsubscribing for years now. Some months I use it, some I don't.

It's more of hassle to unsub, and re-sub again when I want.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by dimgl »

ArtificeAccount wrote: post #31

I'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,…

Agreed, I have not been impressed with Kagi at all.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by mattmcal »

emacdona wrote: post #82
the_pwner224 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched about a year ago. At the time it did seem like a step up from Google results. But there's been an increasing prevalence of low quality results. Blogspam, AI websites, etc. Obviously not blaming Kagi here, web search has gotten hard recently. Is Kagi still better than Google? Probably, I don't really know because I don't use Google anymore. But at this point I feel like I'm with them out of inertia more tha…

I'm glad to see this comment and the parent comment voted so near the top. I've had the same experience. In my experience, Kagi used to be great... then it became good... and now it's "better than Google". "Better than Google" and the fact that I can choose websites to exclude from my search results are two features that I remain willing to pay for, however.

DuckDuckGo allows you to blacklist websites for free

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by lern_too_spel »

drstewart wrote: post #9

Some context would be helpful

When I first clicked through, I got an inane essay about how people you love are like Bitcoin. At least I knew it wasn't written by an LLM due to the misspellings and simple errors in thought, but I wondered why that article was on the front page of HN.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by Venn1 »

Ah, this might explain the traffic from Kagi a week or so ago. I've been scratching my head over that one. I just checked, and my wee little blog is listed in smallweb.txt. Neat!

Curious what goes on behind the Next Post and Show Similar buttons.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by searls »

emacdona wrote: post #82
the_pwner224 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched about a year ago. At the time it did seem like a step up from Google results. But there's been an increasing prevalence of low quality results. Blogspam, AI websites, etc. Obviously not blaming Kagi here, web search has gotten hard recently. Is Kagi still better than Google? Probably, I don't really know because I don't use Google anymore. But at this point I feel like I'm with them out of inertia more tha…

I'm glad to see this comment and the parent comment voted so near the top. I've had the same experience. In my experience, Kagi used to be great... then it became good... and now it's "better than Google". "Better than Google" and the fact that I can choose websites to exclude from my search results are two features that I remain willing to pay for, however.

I'm glad to see this comment and the parent comment and the grandparent comment voted so near the top. I've had the same experience.

I honestly would love to be able to give my Kagi key to the ChatGPT or Claude clients (or more realistically, configure a proxy) just to have it be their primary tool for searches—respecting my site rankings/lists

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by iAMkenough »

titzer wrote: post #64

How do we keep getting surprised by enshittification!? The worst case scenario is that AI runs everything, we have no skills, and are completely dependent on it...and it shows us crummy commercials and subtly steers us to paid placement with no recourse whatsoever. I hate this possible future, but this is where the money will lead.

As Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, said today:

> "It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by dawnerd »

ArtificeAccount wrote: post #31

I'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 the complete opposite experience and it works wonders for me.
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