Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

Post by drewbitt » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 7:13 PM UTC

flexagoon wrote: post #219

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

Post by llamaInSouth » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 8:03 PM UTC

gregdoesit wrote: post #31

I've been using Kagi as my default search engine for about 2 months now. I love it, and feel so far that it's well worth the $108 per year: just by not having to spend mental energy to scroll through the first several sponsored results; and try and decide if a result is paid or not. I set Kagi to be my default search in my browser (Chrome). For specific searches like stocks, maps or restaurant reviews, I still use th…

Post by Toutouxc » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 8:22 PM UTC

carlosjobim wrote: post #220

Toutouxc wrote: post #152

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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).

Post by andrewaylett » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 9:35 PM UTC

civilitty wrote: post #105

andrewaylett wrote: post #80

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They might have similar results in many cases, but they're very different things. For a start, if uBlock blocks a domain then it's a click away from accessing it just this once. On the other hand, it only helps in browsers it supports. On the gripping hand, uBlock Origin can block individual resources, not only entire domains. I'm a happy user of NextDNS rather than a PiHole, but the rationale is the same: use DNS bl…

Agreed, I also use both. NextDNS/PiHole are great because you can configure them as the root DNS providers at the router level and give everyone in your household and guests on WiFi a painless ad-free experience while layering uBlock on top for the sneakier ads like Youtube. The only downside is email unsubscribe links. Those annoyingly tend to be on domains blocked by the various block lists NextDNS uses.

Post by krageon » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 10:28 PM UTC

alien_cat wrote: post #52

Perhaps this is not meant for me. I use gpt-4-turbo frequently, which costs only $5 per month. For the same price, if I were to purchase from Kagi, I would need to limit my quota, like using a different search engine for unit conversion or obtaining a simple Raspi pinout. Why design a product that encourages users to use it less? In my opinion, a $5 with limited searches doesn't justify the cost.