This is just a news aggregator though right? Using it doesn't get any money to the journalists?
Kagi News (iOS)
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#22This seems about as relevant to their core search product as building a clothing import/export/logistics business[1].
I wish they’d focus entirely on search, because that is where innovation is sorely needed. I used Kagi for a little while and could see it becoming huge if they added more user-friendly features.
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#23Timely, enjoying it so far as a first user.
I don’t use any social media and have attempted to get my news in the most basic and unbiased form possible.
After finally acknowledging I could never keep up with my RSS reader, I started using Particle a month ago, but I still feel overwhelmed.
Kagi News feels like a sweet spot at the moment, time will tell but this is as much context and unbiased aggregation as I need/want.
Only feedback is allowing custom categories? Right now is enough to get me functional, but I’d love my more niche topics to be available.
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#24This is awesome! Downloaded it and played with it and as a non Kagi user, I'm impressed!
But please please let me select text!
I wanted to look up a word, so I double taped it to select it, then I realized non of the text in the articles is selectable
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#25I use Kagi. I like the search a lot. This is completely irrelevant to what I want from them. At least with Orion browser it’s associated to the general use case of privacy. I fail to see the angle here?
Same. Paying user here, and it seems to me they’re trying to be Google at a small scale. Get a half-decent search system up, then work on a browser, then the whole AI nonsense which I do not care about, now news.
Guys, I just want you to focus on search. You might feel it is good enough, but we have basically reached 2010 Google. Let’s improve upon that. Build your own index. Combat the annoying LLM spam that is increasingly polluting the home page.
I am truly afraid the next venture for Kagi will be something like “ethical ads” and then we know how that ends.
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#26When Facebook and Google take views and traffic away from news sources through summaries and amp and the rest, it’s bad. But when Kagi does it it’s now good?
The only people mad at Google/LLM summaries not leading to click-throughs are the website operators themselves. They're great for the user that doesn't have to go to a garbage ad riddled page.
Kagi's "summarize page" and "ask questions about this page" are my go to over clicking results. One gets me what I want instantly, one gets me a 20 paragraph history of wing nuts.
This "kite" thing is genuinely the nicest news experience I've had in a long time. I hope they keep investing in it. It's finally news built for the user and no one else.
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#27When Facebook and Google take views and traffic away from news sources through summaries and amp and the rest, it’s bad. But when Kagi does it it’s now good?
The only people mad at Google/LLM summaries not leading to click-throughs are the website operators themselves. They're great for the user that doesn't have to go to a garbage ad riddled page. Kagi's "summarize page" and "ask questions about this page" are my go to over clicking results. One gets me what I want instantly, one gets me a 20 paragraph history of wing nuts. This "kite" thing is genuinely the nicest news…
> They're great for the user that doesn't have to go to a garbage ad riddled page.
The websites are garbage ad riddled because the operators have to pay for the site and the writers and such, and the vast majority of people are unwilling (or unable) to pay even $1 for viewing a site.
Even YouTube premium, lots of folks prefer their ad blocker over paying to remove the ads cause the adblocker is free.