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Kagi and Wolfram

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Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by noneoftheabove »

BeetleB wrote: post #166
jxy wrote: post #76

> welcome Stephen Wolfram to Kagi’s board of advisors This is interesting. I guess we will soon read a longwinded post about it from the first person perspective.

Complete with how he played a major role in the early history of search engines.

Hahahaha also sooo true. Little Sergei Brin interned at his startup. And how Apple Steve job and him had the many discussions about search engine before search engines were a thing. Wolfram practically invented search. U will see on the follow up blog post

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by plumeria »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #177
caycep wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who uses Mathematica, in this age of python/Julia etc? The Grad student world seems to be captured by Matlab

Every university on the planet uses Mathematica, and many schools too.

Also Maple. Many non CS folks use Matlab over Python.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by noneoftheabove »

swyx wrote: post #88

TIL that Wolfram Research has 1000 employees. what do they... do? what is Wolfram's revenue? i'm completely out of the loop. This is the size of Automattic - which makes Wordpress. is Wolfram on that scale? idk.

Wolfram research was lucky in getting A 6 m usd relief package donated by Us US law abiding tax paying citizens. Smart cookie how he got this donation.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by Nition »

metabagel wrote: post #187
pandemic_region wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You haven't lived until you searched and found something useful on expertsexhange. The euphoria is unparalleled.

I went there, and it looks like it's a pay site. It wants me to sign up for a free trial. Not sure how I'm supposed to search it.

I don't know how it works in 2024, but it used to work like this:

- Google would show the result, on Experts Exchange.

- You'd go there and the result would be cut off, and it'd tell you to pay to see it.

- Since Google required the results to actually be there somewhere, you could still scroll waaaay down past all the nonsense to the full text right at the bottom.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by tiagod »

dewbrite wrote: post #28

> 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"?

Kagi has a !reddit bang, but it sends you to the terrible reddit search. I added a custom bang !reddit with "search?q=%s site:reddit.com" as the URL, which just adds site:reddit.com to the search

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by esafak »

jerpint wrote: post #98
jxy wrote: post #76

> welcome Stephen Wolfram to Kagi’s board of advisors This is interesting. I guess we will soon read a longwinded post about it from the first person perspective.

A new kind of search engine

..powered by cellular automata!

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by al_borland »

dewbrite wrote: post #28

> 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"?

I have been using Kagi for quite a while. When I’m looking for code stuff at work, I will get results from Reddit that come to the top or close to the top. It doesn’t throw all of Reddit away, even when I’m not specially looking for Reddit.

I just tried your search, without even adding “Reddit” on the end. At the very top was a “Discussions” section, which had a tile for Reddit. The first result was also Reddit, with a few discussions nested under it. The the gearspace forum, followed by YouTube, then it bunches up a bunch of those 10 ten lists that pollute Google all into a section that is easy to use or skip, then sweetwater music, and then funny enough, your comment here on HN. It keeps going, but yeah… Reddit isn’t deranked to the point of not being used, Kagi sees the value in discussion forums when looking for the “best” something.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

dewbrite wrote: post #28

> 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"?

This comment is now the second result for me, below https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/uhga1j/usb_mi... and above https://www.reddit.com/r/synthdiy/comments/g6cm6q/waterproof...

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by Skunkleton »

stavros wrote: post #184
dewbrite wrote: post #28

> 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"?

I never realized before that sentence, but the presence of ads and tracking on a webpage is correlated really well with me never wanting to read its content. I might sign up to Kagi just for that.

I’ve been using Kagi for a while now. It’s worth a shot. I’ve been very happy with the quality of the results and I never find myself feeling like I should check google too.
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