I've been a paying Kagi customer for maybe 6 months now. It's such a breath of fresh air to be the customer again. Haven't used !g a single time.
Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Similar here. I didn't know Kagi until, as I remember, there was an article here on HN. I thought too why should I pay for search? Kagi basically won me after I realised I can exclude whole domains from search results - now Pinterest, Stackshare and all those AI-generated content filler sites are gone from my search results. Search results are great and it's just worth it. The only advantage Google so far has IMHO is…
That's actually something I dislike, I don't want my results to be different based on where I am.
Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. If you're looking for something in the area where you live, you kinda need location-based search. Having it something you can toggle makes a lot of sense.
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#193I am still not convinced that I should trust Kagi. Why should I use my email address to log into the system? They say that it's for them to know how much credit you have left. Mullvad does generate a unique number for you, which you can use indefinitely.
If you don't trust something, you should follow your gut instinct. Do you think something or somebody becomes more trustable if the repeat "Trust me, bro" to you? You don't achieve anything by asking "why should I trust them?", especially on a message board full of strangers. An dishonest person will repeat a thousand times that you can trust them, while an honest person probably will take offense.
But he didn't asked just for a "Trust me, bro".
He is asking about why they don't use mullvad which can replace email id.
It only seams beneficial to allow that if you promote your service as privacy focused.
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I'm also a happy Kagi user. There are only two reasons I still visit Google: 1. I'm based in the UK and often it shows me shops based in the US high up within my search results. 2. Sometimes I specifically like to visit Google Shopping to find the lowest prices online for an item I'm trying to buy. Once Kagi has improved these two areas I'll have no reason at all to ever visit Google (other than Google Maps or Google…
Number 1 is the main reason I haven’t made the switch yet. Google local search results are something I care about and use frequently. If Kagi solves local search, I’ll switch completely over to them.
Maybe this means something other than what I'm thinking, but if I search for "pub" on Kagi, I get a list of pubs near me. And if I click on the link, it brings up a map with pins on the pubs in my town.
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#195Kagi is ok but I don't understand the level of gushing over it that I see here. I got the 100 query free trial a few months ago and haven't used it up yet. So I'm not willing to buy a monthly subscription for something I'd rarely (won't say never) use. A flat $20 for 500 queries would be fine and might last me a year or so.
It does seem unremarkable sometimes, but every now and again I'll accidentally search for something in a private browser session (which defaults to google) and I'll immediately think, "these results are terrible, what happened?" and then i'll notice i'm not on kagi. That experience happening about a dozen times really sealed the deal for me.
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#196Every once in a while, I looked for an alternative to Google. I have given them all a go, but none of them stayed as my default for more than a few days. Until Kagi. I absolutely did not think I would pay for a search engine. Especially as I've recently been on a quest to cut every unnecessary subscription. YouTube Premium is gone (thanks to 83/% family plan price hike). Half of my dozen or so domains are gone... you…
I desperately wish I could use kagi but tying my identity to my searches is an automatic nogo. Is kagi interested in offering a Mulvad-grade option where everything is in ram and NO data is tied to my account? Kagi, if you're listening. Please.
We do not log and associate searches with an account, that would be just a liability for us, check our privacy policy [1]. You can already use a disposable email address and use bitcoin payments to ensure 100% anonymity on your end, while still paying for the product.
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#197Every once in a while, I looked for an alternative to Google. I have given them all a go, but none of them stayed as my default for more than a few days. Until Kagi. I absolutely did not think I would pay for a search engine. Especially as I've recently been on a quest to cut every unnecessary subscription. YouTube Premium is gone (thanks to 83/% family plan price hike). Half of my dozen or so domains are gone... you…
I desperately wish I could use kagi but tying my identity to my searches is an automatic nogo. Is kagi interested in offering a Mulvad-grade option where everything is in ram and NO data is tied to my account? Kagi, if you're listening. Please.
To clarify what I think you're suggesting for non-Mullvad users:
- Payment can be made in multiple forms which are not tied to a customer identity (you can even mail them cash) - Accounts are not username/password, no personal info is requested. When you pay you're given a randomly generated account number (currently 16 digits) which is valid for the time paid and each connected device, up to 5 simultaneously, will receive a random name.
More info here: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvads-account-numbers-get-lon...
This is a great suggestion for opening up as a more general purpose search engine. The history on/off option is nice but not an adequate guarantee for many situations. Searching for regionally banned or "unfavorable" topics while traveling or living under a regime, consulting legal information, or just plain old porn searches are all situations where one might consider having their name, email, and credit card stored with the potential to be linked a bit too risky.
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I recommend DeepL for translation. Google Translate hasn’t really improved out the years and I find the DeepL translations superior.
Note that you can also search for something like "translate some sentence to french" in Kagi and get a translation widget, which I think is powered by DeepL. It doesn't show alternatives, but it's pretty nice.
Thanks, I didn't know that. I'm a big fan of Kagi and it turns out I don't use half of the cool stuff I'm paying for.
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#199According to SimilarWeb, Kagi.com has ~1 million visits per month. Very niche, for now.
That is off by at least an order of magnitude since we have 350k searches/day [1]
But anyway, we like niche, niche is good, allows focus.
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#200Kagi is ok but I don't understand the level of gushing over it that I see here. I got the 100 query free trial a few months ago and haven't used it up yet. So I'm not willing to buy a monthly subscription for something I'd rarely (won't say never) use. A flat $20 for 500 queries would be fine and might last me a year or so.
You are clearly in a different usage bracked to me. I had the opposite problem, I used up my 1000 searches within a month and didn't want to pay more than 10$. They since introduced unlimited searches for 10$ so I'm pretty happy.
I’m in the same boat, I think I actually used the 100 searches up in two weeks or so. I remember wanting to search something on the couch and then being told I’m out of credits, throwing money at them was a no-brainer at that point. I think if OOP hasn’t used their 100 searches up in a few months, maybe they just don’t really need a search engine that badly? If you aren’t in the market of moderate to heavy search engine use, then paying any amount of money for one would also not sit right with me.