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One thing I miss from Google is relatively seamless integration with maps. Sometimes the address queries just fail for me on Kagi. And even when they don’t, Google’s maps are still far more useful IMO.
This is probably similar to the Wolfram|Alpha + Siri integration (which AFAIK no longer exists): - Kagi will rely on Wolfram's okay-ish stack to immediately add features to their engine - Kagi will, over time, 1-by-1 remove the reliance on the (generally slow and expensive) Wolfram API with built-in features - Once the meat of the features have been rewritten internally by Kagi in more performant and self-controlled…
I pay for Kagi’s duo plan, $14/month or $151.20/year [1], a discount which implies a 10% cost of capital. At that discount rate, a lifetime membership at $1,680 would be rational for Kagi ($600 individual). And at that price, I’d pay! Hell, do $3k flat (5% cost of capital; ~$1k individual) and throw in an annual in-person event and I’d call it a great deal. For Kagi, moreover, it would be permanent capital. (I would…
I strongly believe part of the reason Plex has gone down the shitter is because they sold too many lifetime memberships and expenditure has outstripped recurring revenue.
> To ensure result quality, we automatically downrank pages with advertising and tracking, which are often associated with low-quality or machine-generated content. That is one of the most compelling things I've ever heard about a search engine. How well does kagi work for niche "reddit queries" like "best waterproof midi synthesizers reddit"?
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I’m just confused why that would be expected behaviour unprompted, and particularly after you specified “$.”
I don't expect it to do any of these conversions, however it would be a noticeable improvement in terms of search. There was an old article explaining how Google interpreted "Polish" from "polish" in its search results. Of course, kagi, Bing, Google, etc. can no longer find this article..
> To ensure result quality, we automatically downrank pages with advertising and tracking, which are often associated with low-quality or machine-generated content. That is one of the most compelling things I've ever heard about a search engine. How well does kagi work for niche "reddit queries" like "best waterproof midi synthesizers reddit"?
you guys are living in a dreamworld. I'm totally fine with a site that has "tracking" like Google analytics to help content makers and businesses alike make decisions. And have visited many a site with valuable content that might have been tracking me at the same time. This eliminates tons of valuable content.
They aren’t eliminating it, just downranking it. Given Kagi’s search quality, ad and tracking density seems to negatively correlate with site quality.
One thing I miss from Google is relatively seamless integration with maps. Sometimes the address queries just fail for me on Kagi. And even when they don’t, Google’s maps are still far more useful IMO.
I'm excited for this. I've found Kagi to be very useful having widgets like this, in addition to the search results being good. I still have DDG as my search engine for ephemeral searches[1] on my phone and I'm getting sick of it. I don't know if I'd say the result quality has been getting worse , it's just not good and hasn't been for years. Kagi on the other hand feels like an ideal subscription service. It feels l…
Imo ddg's mission is incompatible with today's web. The mission is simply to serve you regular Google/bing search, but without tracking and they do that well, but it is missing the absolute trash fire that those results are currently (yes, they have moved somewhat from that but clearly they are still heavily reliant on Google ranking). Kagi on the other hand, I spend 5$ a month on search that doesn't track me AND giv…
Oh that was you, thank you!
Tangentially related: does anyone have a recommendation for adding a Kagi search widget to Android home screen? I have read some related documentation [1] but it's not super clear if what I am looking for is supported. [1]: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.h...