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Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by Brian_K_White »

tremon wrote: post #179
Brian_K_White wrote: post #171

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Bookmarks were my obvious answer as well, but bookmarks are annoying to me. I don't like managing them and I don't like having the bar visible and I don't like having to remember to use the bookmark for things that have a bookmark, and the addressbar for things that don't have a bookmark. It's a work-around, not an actual resolution, unless you already happen to like using bookmarks.

This is my approach: address-bar autocomplete only uses bookmarks as suggestions (well, and open tabs). I almost never open my bookmarks, nor feel the need to organize them. I'm really pleased with the way Firefox has implemented that autocomplete: by default, Firefox autocompletes the domain names (with typeahead) while you're typing, while full bookmarked url's are just a down-arrow away, sorted by most recently us…

This sounds pretty good. Thanks.

I have actually already split my address and search fields too, for a different reason. I got aggrevated with having the local machine names on my lan perform a public search, even though my local dns is configured to use only my opnsense router, which does resolve the local names correctly. Splitting off the search box makes the local names always do only what DNS says, and so I get my 3d printer instead of search results for it's name.

For that particular problem, going to "truenas" or "unifi" etc on my lan, the bookmarks are actually more convenient in nmost cases I have to admit! Especially with half of the services needing some special port number like unifi and jellyfin etc.

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by matheusmoreira »

freediver wrote: post #177
matheusmoreira wrote: post #149

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I have been developing a "small web" static site, forked and customized a templating engine into a static site generator just for my site. Even wrote a new post recently, last week or so. How can I add it to the list? The GitHub says to make a pull request, is that really all there is to it? Edit: just saw this: > Do not submit your own website. I see. I'm okay with that. Maybe it will show up there one day.

I checked your site and do not see an RSS feed there? Feel free to submit it once implemented :)

I'll work on it!

Re: Kagi Small Web

#183

Post by DavideNL »

rpastuszak wrote: post #131
kickdaddy wrote: post #5

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?

I’m mostly happy with ddg but I wish they had a feature allowing me to disable certain sites by default like kagi, even if that information was stored in local storage only and I’d have to add the exclude list manually.

https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

Re: Kagi Small Web

#184

Post by MatthiasPortzel »

spdif899 wrote: post #147
MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #69

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If your goal is to encourage people to post more on blogs, why exclude all blogs created within the last 3 years?

Unless I've missed something, they aren't doing that - the mention of a three year time frame is that you must have made a post on the blog within the last 3 years, this excluding old and dormant blogs

I read “must have a post at least three years old” to mean “must have a post which is three years old or older.”

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by hejalajsbsb »

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...

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Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by kid_madhyamika »

flexagoon wrote: post #153
BbzzbB wrote: post #22

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Isn't this more likely to have been inspired by marginalia* than a personal blogs thread? Doesn't seem to have the same results from the Apple Watch example, but it's what immediately came to mind for me when I read this post's title. * https://search.marginalia.nu , commonly mentioned on HN https://hn.algolia.com/?query=marginalia

Kagi actually uses Marginalia as one of its result sources, especially if you enable the "non-commercial" lens!

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Re: Kagi Small Web

#188

Post by Brian_K_White »

freediver wrote: post #174
Brian_K_White wrote: post #167

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I don't understand the pricing. (Well, I do understand, I understand that it's the same anti-consumer gimmick as gym memberships.) On the $5 tier it's 1.7 cents per search for the first 300, then 1.5 cents after that. As expected I blew past the 300 before the month was out and am currently sitting at a total of almost $9 for this month and there are still 3 more days to go, and this includes being away for labor day…

You shouldn't need to be counting them. It was a necesseity to make sure we stay in business. We figured out ways to reduce costs in the meantime and we will be going back to $10/mo for unmetered searches this month.

I appreciate that. As long as you're still hashing things out I'm willing to give it more time. I really like the small web concept. What I would like most is not even $10 unmetered, or even $2 unmetered, but simply $n per transaction, as long as you are obviously doing the work of counting them anyway.

$10 unmetered must always be a fallacy anyway. Surely I can't start up "bkwsearch" and sell searches for 3 cents each, and pay you only $10 for my million$ skin.

So I say don't even pretend.

Except really there probably needs to be both options, because some people value predictability more than any specific amount. So $10 or $20 or any number that never changes is better (for them) than paying only $2 on average but unpredictable each month.

I neither want to pay $10 for $2 worth of usage, nor soak you for $30 worth of usage while only paying $10. Even more than that I don't want to have to think about it to make sure if I choose the N tier that I'm making more or less full use of the N tier.

I appreciate that you took the time to read an individual users complaint, whatever you end up doing. Thanks.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#189

Post by caskstrength »

vinceguidry wrote: post #175
toastal wrote: post #54

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There’s not much to reinvent. They could have setup & hosted an XMPP server with MUCs & microblogged posts on whatever ActivityPub option they chose (or similar softwares).

The point isn't to go back to the 90s, it's to bring the 90s into today.

How is creating a Mastodon account equates to "going back to the 90s"?

Re: Kagi Small Web

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Post by dagw »

caskstrength wrote: post #189
vinceguidry wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point isn't to go back to the 90s, it's to bring the 90s into today.

How is creating a Mastodon account equates to "going back to the 90s"?

Instead of there being one central authority where you create your "Mastodon account" that is responsible for authentication and deciding who gets to view and post what, there are thousands of independent 'authorities' each deciding who they want to let on and how they want to do things and what subset of Mastodon they want their users to see. Much like Usenet and IRC
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