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Re: Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

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Post by meantub »

freediver wrote: post #12

Kagi founder here. This is very early (alpha) concept built by a single Kagi Labs developer in a few weeks. The proper infrastruture and product is not built yet. We are launching a prototype to get feedback and gauge demand. Why does this exist? It would be an efficient way for us to build and expand our own index. Assuming users of this would be Kagi users, we would expand our index by tens of thousands of high qua…

I think it would be interesting if like the website ranking that is done on Kagi there was a way to rate the search results to lower or higher it's ranking in search results. It would be a little different though since the website ranking on Kagi is for users but ranking the search results might just improve the intended search result that many people are looking for.

I guess this assumes that you aren't already doing that when they click one option over another for a certain search term.

Just thinking about searching through some documentation sites and you get a dumb result you weren't looking for at the top, and would want to deprioritize that result.

Re: Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

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Post by Kerrick »

ggoo wrote: post #2

I just want good search results. This feels like a distraction.

Given that their motivation for this is to find more sites and pages to index, it seems like it should improve the quality (or at least quantity) of results thanks to a larger index.

Re: Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

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Post by ggoo »

Kerrick wrote: post #23
ggoo wrote: post #2

I just want good search results. This feels like a distraction.

Given that their motivation for this is to find more sites and pages to index, it seems like it should improve the quality (or at least quantity) of results thanks to a larger index.

Hm, I may have judged too quickly then - I do hope this translates to better quality. Will wait and see.

Re: Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

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Post by nicce »

unshavedyak wrote: post #19
smcleod wrote: post #8

Early Kagi adopter here. I love Kagi search and their summarisation features, but I'd rather they just focus on high quality and configurable search and summarisation results rather than new products.

It seems like a feature which is mutually beneficial. Ie user activity on embedded sites helps indicate interest in Kagi index updates. Isn't this entirely in-line with your desires? Better quality search results by way of having up to date indexes?

The problem is that it can go also terribly wrong. (New way for SEO optimisation)

Re: Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

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Post by mayneack »

bbor wrote: post #17
sedatk wrote: post #14

I've been a paying Kagi user for a few months now. The only thing that made me miss Google results was immediate answers: the answers that are extracted from a prominent web page and shown directly, so you don't have to click the link. Actually, Kagi has some of that for certain queries, but it's not as extensive as Google's. So, contrary to the most of the comments here, I support their AI endeavors for the sake of…

They just released a major improvement to these, actually :). So keep trying it! At the risk of sounding like a shill: kagi is by far the best money I spent last year. The “programming” “academia” “small web” and (especially!) “PDF” buttons are worth their weight in GOLD. These are the main two improvements from last week: We added Wolfram|Alpha to enhance our capabilities in calculations, unit conversions, and time…

Oh, interesting. I was actually wondering what had changed. That wolfram integration needs some work. Right now it's consistently just simplifying fractions. I keep having to "!g" in brave to get google to do simple math for me.

https://i.imgur.com/ghmUcAh.png

Re: Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

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Post by BadHumans »

nicce wrote: post #25
unshavedyak wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like a feature which is mutually beneficial. Ie user activity on embedded sites helps indicate interest in Kagi index updates. Isn't this entirely in-line with your desires? Better quality search results by way of having up to date indexes?

The problem is that it can go also terribly wrong. (New way for SEO optimisation)

Kagi users are in such a minority that I don't see how it is worth it for anyone to optimize for Kagi search results.

Re: Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

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Post by nicce »

BadHumans wrote: post #27
nicce wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that it can go also terribly wrong. (New way for SEO optimisation)

Kagi users are in such a minority that I don't see how it is worth it for anyone to optimize for Kagi search results.

Yet. If you want to be better than Google, you need to avoid Google's mistakes.

Re: Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

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Post by al_borland »

sedatk wrote: post #14

I've been a paying Kagi user for a few months now. The only thing that made me miss Google results was immediate answers: the answers that are extracted from a prominent web page and shown directly, so you don't have to click the link. Actually, Kagi has some of that for certain queries, but it's not as extensive as Google's. So, contrary to the most of the comments here, I support their AI endeavors for the sake of…

I’ve been really liking the quick answers[1] that Kagi added. The doc gives some info as to what triggers it so it seems less random.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/quick-answer.html

Re: Kagi Sidekick (alpha)

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Post by greazy »

freediver wrote: post #12

Kagi founder here. This is very early (alpha) concept built by a single Kagi Labs developer in a few weeks. The proper infrastruture and product is not built yet. We are launching a prototype to get feedback and gauge demand. Why does this exist? It would be an efficient way for us to build and expand our own index. Assuming users of this would be Kagi users, we would expand our index by tens of thousands of high qua…

Kagi user here and scientist.

I think kagi sidekick would be very well received in the bioinformatics space. Lots of complex docs that require end users to digest large complex data.

Can it be tuned to only point users to the docs and not answer questions?

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