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Kagi is great but even though it knows my location is the UK, by default is skews to US-located results. I can fix it by suffixing every query with "UK", but its a pain. That said, I'm a paying customer and will continue to be.
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Be careful with the "100 free searches" limit, it's not always really 100. If you click the "More" button at the bottom of the search results page it reduces the number of free searches left. In hindsight, it probably means they're re-running the search again with different parameters, thus "using" another free search. However it's not at all obvious to the user that asking to display more results from an existing li…
I agree they should make you aware of that more directly when using the feature/before registering but to be fair it's in their FAQ.
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In my case, if they'd just made the "More" button say something like "More... (search again and display new results)" it would have been clear what would happen. That's very much how new/intro users should be treated, if not all users. And I would have subscribed. Alas, they didn't, and I just can't mentally clear the hurdle of paying money to a place which I feel deceived me. So, I didn't become a subscriber. :/
Heya, I work at Kagi. This sounds like a great idea, thanks for the input! We'll put it on the requested features list (which our users contribute to).
I don't want to pay for a search service and have 'range anxiety' and self-regulate my usage like I'm driving a 50km EV. Search is ubiquitous, make a flat rate subscription for normal people and a TOS that excludes non-human abuses. I don't pay for a per call mobile phone plan and I make way more searches.
The limit has been removed from most paid plans since September https://blog.kagi.com/unlimited-searches-for-10 > We’re thrilled to announce that unlimited search is now included in our $10/month Professional plan and our Ultimate, Family, and Duo plans.
A discount pairing with Firefox might be good for sales/marketing.
I would jump on a $5/month unlimited queries plan though. And I'm sure I'm not alone in that bucket
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we really need a better way of paying for content. There's some attempts going around of browsers or extensions paying sites, but the ones i've seen felt kinda scammy. i'd love some service where i can put in $20 a month, and it gets split up among the sites i've visited, with options to give bigger shares or exclude sites completely. probably not gonna happen for a while though, having to set up something to receive…
Honestly, I think a service like Kagi (together with their Orion browser) would be best suited to set up a service like this. I've been thinking for some time about exactly the idea you're proposing. The interface could be so simple: a button in your browser you click to donate to the current open tab. That button turns into a pay button if you've opened a page that demands payment. And the page could specify how muc…
I like Kagi , I do. I like the ranking, I like how I can search for controversial people and not have my intended search target censored by obfuscation. Kagi just gives me the data. That’s great! I pay the 5 a month but I run out mid month which makes me not use it and breaks the habit and worry. I’m considering the 10 a month but then I think I get 500gb e2ee cloud+email+email hosting+vpn+a couple of other small thi…
> I’m considering the 10 a month but then I think I get 500gb e2ee cloud+email+email hosting+vpn+a couple of other small things from proton for $8.33 a month. Just because Proton is a great deal doesn't make Kagi a worse deal. This kind of logic never made sense to me. The products have nothing in common, so why the comparison? Then, also think about why you're worrying about spending $10 per month on a product that…
For me, 5-8 a month I think about less than 9.99+. Probably psychological and financial. Obviously will be different for everyone and isn’t purely rational thinking.
Unrelated: tried logging in with my Google account (yes, I know it's considered bad practice) and got an error on Google's side that Kagi is blocked.
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…
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…
Sort of. You can block the domain in the result but not the spammy domain underneath.
If you're getting tons of result with gov.ar (spam1.gov.ar, spam2.gov.ar, spam3.gov.ar) you have to use up your blocklist for each one. You can't block gov.ar.
We can't edit our blocklist directly.
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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…
So far i haven’t been able to blacklist pinterest from image results, however — has that been added?