One thing I miss from Google is relatively seamless integration with maps. Sometimes the address queries just fail for me on Kagi. And even when they don’t, Google’s maps are still far more useful IMO.
Kagi and Wolfram
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#162TIL that Wolfram Research has 1000 employees. what do they... do? what is Wolfram's revenue? i'm completely out of the loop. This is the size of Automattic - which makes Wordpress. is Wolfram on that scale? idk.
Mathematica is a commercial product: https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/pricing/
Who uses Mathematica, in this age of python/Julia etc? The Grad student world seems to be captured by Matlab
Re: Kagi and Wolfram
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
yes https://kagi.com/settings?p=billing_plan
To rephrase my question, was the unlimited plan not available about a year ago? Otherwise I don't think I would have disqualified kagi at the time. I recall the volume being too low for my needs, even without hooking it up to any automated systems (which for me at least, was the whole point of looking into paid search engines).
was it not available about a year ago? I'm not sure. Maybe the wayback machine can tell you. But I have a gut feeling that there is a slight misalignment between your use case and their intended use of their service :)
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Show in USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, BTC.. etc.
I’m just confused why that would be expected behaviour unprompted, and particularly after you specified “$.”
I don't expect it to do any of these conversions, however it would be a noticeable improvement in terms of search.
There was an old article explaining how Google interpreted "Polish" from "polish" in its search results. Of course, kagi, Bing, Google, etc. can no longer find this article..
Re: Kagi and Wolfram
#165I'm excited for this. I've found Kagi to be very useful having widgets like this, in addition to the search results being good. I still have DDG as my search engine for ephemeral searches[1] on my phone and I'm getting sick of it. I don't know if I'd say the result quality has been getting worse , it's just not good and hasn't been for years. Kagi on the other hand feels like an ideal subscription service. It feels l…
> [1] To force me not to leave open tabs I don't really care about, my default browser is FireFox Focus, which is strictly "incognito" mode, which means I'd have to manually log in to Kagi every time I did a search.
I strongly recommend the Tab Wrangler extension. I set it to close any tabs that have not been visited in the last 6 hours. Of all the methods I've tried to deal with too many tabs, this has been the most effective.
Re: Kagi and Wolfram
#166> welcome Stephen Wolfram to Kagi’s board of advisors This is interesting. I guess we will soon read a longwinded post about it from the first person perspective.
Complete with how he played a major role in the early history of search engines.
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#167kagi is the new apple: shut up and take my money
Yeah I’m very seriously regretting passing on the private investment opportunity that early adopters were given.
I love the idea of Wolfram throwing his brainpower and associated ego behind this problem.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have tried Kagi and I don't find anything magical. And I see a lot of testaments saying how good Kagi is, and most of them aren't in any specific comparison.
What exactly are you looking for in a testimonial? Do you want a side-by-side comparison of results or something? My experience has been that Kagi's customizations are the key selling point, allowing you to block and bump domains to meet your needs: * I have Wikipedia pinned, so if there's a Wikipedia article it's always the top result, whereas Google has lately started downweighting Wikipedia much of the time (as a…
If you need specific domains, you can always search within that domain. With Chrome, you can even setup shortcut to search certain places like Wiki. Most features I can do within Google or Chrome, and many things are still better within Google search and sometimes being paired with Chrome browser.
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#169Why am I starting to see a lot of promotional statements within HN? Are there any bot or some army of manual labor around?
When I say this, I have some already voted down (you know who), and some voted up. If you notice, you will see Kagi keeps appearing on HN very often lately, and often there're people talk very good thing about Kagi. This clearly supports my suspicion here.
I find that people often don't fully know how to search and blame Google for not having the feature. Google even implements things in the browser that people can take advantage.