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Introducing Kagi Search's New Design

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Re: Introducing Kagi Search's New Design

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Post by Teever »

louis-lau wrote: post #7
atonse wrote: post #5

I really like Kagi and this is probably Apple’s fault but the requirement to install a safari extension which then hijacks your default search is very janky and is my #1 complaint. Any reason it can’t just be added as a search engine?

You're right, it's not possible to set a custom search engine on safari. An extension is the only way. Blame apple :)

Damn, that's something that needs to be regulated.

Re: Introducing Kagi Search's New Design

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Post by fiatjaf »

I've been using Kagi for 6 months and I honestly don't know how they do it, it's amazing and it makes me want to vomit every time I see Google or DuckDuckGo, Bing etc.

One important thing people rarely mention is that it is so fast. It's so much faster than Google to show results, makes it for a much smoother searching flow.

Re: Introducing Kagi Search's New Design

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Post by fiatjaf »

almyk wrote: post #2

They also added gemini 1.5 pro to their chat assistant. However, it seems like it isn't added to the select menu yet, but it can be accessed by changing sub_mode to 8 in the url query.

I had been using multiple AI assistants to get information because Google search really wasn't delivering it.

But now that I'm using Kagi with super fast unlimited searches I almost never feel the need to ask one of these AI things anymore.

Re: Introducing Kagi Search's New Design

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Post by pbohun »

AlotOfReading wrote: post #14
rfarley04 wrote: post #3

I finally switched to Kagi last month after reading a bunch of HN comments that boiled down to "trust me, it's worth it." And now I'm here to say "trust me, it's worth it."

To illustrate how good kagi is, here's the things it's not as good at (for me): 1) the weather widget doesn't show precipitation chances in the future, only for today 2) historical queries like "newspaper articles on interest rates from 1/1/2008" are subpar compared to Google. Probably related to the recency of their index. 3) hyperlocal queries that rely on contextual information like location need to have that info…

In the old days, I could search for something niche on Google and get blogs/enthusiast websites. Does Kagi do that, or will I only get commercial results like modern Google?

Re: Introducing Kagi Search's New Design

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Post by biglyburrito »

rfarley04 wrote: post #3

I finally switched to Kagi last month after reading a bunch of HN comments that boiled down to "trust me, it's worth it." And now I'm here to say "trust me, it's worth it."

Yep. Last month, I finally hit the $5/mo plan limit of 300 searches per month & upgraded to the $10/mo unlimited plan. Totally worth it not to waste my time sifting through garbage SEO sites on Google or half-assed DuckDuckGo search results.

Re: Introducing Kagi Search's New Design

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Post by mandeepj »

rfarley04 wrote: post #3

I finally switched to Kagi last month after reading a bunch of HN comments that boiled down to "trust me, it's worth it." And now I'm here to say "trust me, it's worth it."

> a bunch of HN comments that boiled down to "trust me, it's worth it."

What happened to Duck Duck Go?

Re: Introducing Kagi Search's New Design

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Post by biglyburrito »

galleywest200 wrote: post #20
culopatin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried their browser Orion? I can barely tell I’m in a different browser.

I love Orion. My only complaint is the way that the address bar disappears when scrolling is a bit jarring, the animation seems too fast.

I have both Orion and Vivaldi instead for this reason. If Orion ends up being too janky, I fall back to Vivaldi.

https://kagi.com/orion/

https://vivaldi.com/

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