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Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

culi wrote: post #150
chrisandchris wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Kagi basically won me after I realised I can exclude whole domains from search results I have an extension that does this for me

You were downvoted unfairly, imo. I love Kagi to pieces but they're still catching up with what these extensions do.

I asked the developer for Google Hit-Hider to add the ability to block a 2ld (gov.br) when confronted with many results from 3ld (crap.gov.br, junk.gov.br, chum.gov.br) - and he did. You can trim the domain right in the action window. JS is one of the best people.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by chrisandchris »

hprotagonist wrote: post #125
chrisandchris wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Not sure, i don't use image search that often and if so, it's fairly technical stuff.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by drewbitt »

I have been using Kagi for the past 9 months. I can't wait until they can fully replace Google for me, but I have a few problems with it.

1. Some niche domains are entirely not crawled by Kagi. Obviously, Google crawls a ton more and while Kagi can get 90% of what I need, I must fall back to Google occasionally.

2. Searching for restaurants or maps is poor. I didn't realize how much I relied on Google reviews for businesses until I switched to Kagi. Plus, the built in "order" buttons, photos, menu tab etc. are all missing. At least Kagi has a button to launch Google Maps, but I'd like more in Kagi itself.

3. I get results from other countries for Amazon and other web shopping sites even though my region is United States. I can't make them lower priority unless it's in the subdomain.

I use Kagi for search but have to fall back to Google 3-4 times a day at least.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by byyll »

hovering_nox wrote: post #35
aryonoco wrote: post #17

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…

I feel like people are sleeping on Kagi FastGPT, its their amazing search combined with their summariser and a llm model that gives me the answers directly without having to search myself. https://kagi.com/fastgpt

I asked what's 2 + 2 and it said 4, giving a reference to a YouTube video saying it's a billion.

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Post by drewbitt »

colesantiago wrote: post #174
daveoc64 wrote: post #111

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It's a paid service, so you need to authenticate to use it. You're a paying customer, not the product.

Mullvad is able to do this without passwords and emails AND it is a paid product that is privacy based. I don't see why Kagi can't do the same.

And it has huge problems with reselling accounts, attacks to randomly guess the username which gives full access to the account, they had to disable port forwarding due to abuse via anonymity, and they enforce a device limit per account due to the above. It does work for them, but at a cost.

Kagi is "a company created with the mission to humanize the web. Our goal is to amplify the web of human knowledge, creativity, and self-expression." Their goal is a search engine above all.

Mullvad's tagline right now is "A free and open society is a society where people have the right to privacy." Their goal is privacy exclusively in a VPN.

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Post by freediver »

ndom91 wrote: post #205

Man I really like this, but I'm having trouble convincing myself that $10/month for unlimited searches is worth it.. I guess thats what ~20 years of using Google and other free search engines will do to you haha I would jump on a $5/month unlimited queries plan though. And I'm sure I'm not alone in that bucket

Maybe this helps (a bit) to convince you:

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by flexagoon »

hutattedonmyarm wrote: post #116
mgaunard wrote: post #55

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That's actually something I dislike, I don't want my results to be different based on where I am.

I really love Duck Duck Go's solution: Below the search input is a small toggle, allowing me to toggle whether results are based on my location or now. Most of the time I don't, but every now and then the results improve if I explicitly toggle results for my country on Edit: I just saw that Kagi supports "regional bangs", e.g. !nl to search results for The Netherlands. This is, for me, almost on par with DDG

Kagi also has the location toggle, it works the same way as DDG

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by flexagoon »

drewbitt wrote: post #213

I have been using Kagi for the past 9 months. I can't wait until they can fully replace Google for me, but I have a few problems with it. 1. Some niche domains are entirely not crawled by Kagi. Obviously, Google crawls a ton more and while Kagi can get 90% of what I need, I must fall back to Google occasionally. 2. Searching for restaurants or maps is poor. I didn't realize how much I relied on Google reviews for bus…

> Obviously, Google crawls a ton more

I'm not sure how this is possible, Kagi uses Google's results

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

Perhaps those sites are just getting downranked by Kagi's algorithms

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by carlosjobim »

Toutouxc wrote: post #152
SSLy wrote: post #97

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Both? When I want to look up something in my native language.

10M people European country here, no issues. I get good results in the native language for "restaurants in [random 15K people town]", "[random local food] recipes", info about taxes from gov websites, recent local events, my own name (high school's website), my mom's name (her business website), random hobby forums.

I think the question is about the paywall indicator, not about Kagi search in general.

I tried some searches in three different languages, and mostly Kagi didn't identify non-english paid webpages. It could only identify one (which wasn't paywalled at all).

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