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Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by NewsGotHacked »

I bought a year of kagi and overly very satisfied. 2 things that annoy me about it: -I randomly get irrelevant international results as a US person (Amazon Canada and Amazon India for instance) -There are inconsistently labeled timestamps on things. I use reddit a lot when reviewing search results. Sometimes the reddit links are timestamped and sometimes they aren't. Leads to end up clicking on a reddit link that is 6 or 8 years old and no longer revelant.

Other than that is works really well!

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by robga »

spiffotron wrote: post #18

As a UK user I find Kagi returns results from Australia far too often which is a super weird issue DDG used to have as well

I'm a UK Kagi user and do not have this issue.

Perhaps it is your IP range? Do you have the same problem on mobile and broadband?

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by M4v3R »

aryonoco wrote: post #17

Every 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 was exactly the same. I tried various search engines but always reverted back to Google after a while. I think I stuck with DDG for the longest time but it wasn't enough to win me. And somehow Kagi managed to do it and now I'm a very happy paying customer of theirs.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by Sebb767 »

timvdalen wrote: post #20

I've been using Kagi for a few months now, and search results definitely feel much more useful than Google. Widgets are definitely not as good yet, though (think stuff like "sunrise", timezone conversion, currency conversion, etc).

> Widgets are definitely not as good yet, though

That's true. The seem to especially be confused with `,` and `.` in fractional numbers; sometimes it recognizes `,` , sometimes it doesn't, but it does use `,` in the results. This leads to the fun result that you can't use the output it gave you as input in a new calculation.

But that's a minor issue and otherwise I'm also a happy paying user.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by jve »

throwaway81523 wrote: post #12

Kagi 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.

Yeah, my trial was also sitting with unused searches because I treated it as a scarce resource and couldn't search like I would.

Because of GPT4 and Claude 2 chat models available in Ultimate plan, I thought I'd gonna try it for a month.

No problems using it for daily search/google/bing replacement. Just few times I tried fallback to google and the results where either about the same or once the google gave trash.

Yeah, but I bought it for AI features more than the search.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by russelg »

NewsGotHacked wrote: post #21

I bought a year of kagi and overly very satisfied. 2 things that annoy me about it: -I randomly get irrelevant international results as a US person (Amazon Canada and Amazon India for instance) -There are inconsistently labeled timestamps on things. I use reddit a lot when reviewing search results. Sometimes the reddit links are timestamped and sometimes they aren't. Leads to end up clicking on a reddit link that is…

You could try work around the Amazon issue by lowering the non US ones and raising the US one
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