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Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by carlosjobim »

ziddoap wrote: post #216
carlosjobim wrote: post #169

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> Any chance you can expand on this? Why do you ask people instead of trying it and finding out if you like it or not? They have a trial of 100 free searches. This is a little bit like asking a coffee drinker "explain why I should drink coffee". It's better to try for yourself and see if you like it.

Why would I ask, on a forum for conversation, about another persons experience? Yeah, you're right, weird of me to do that.

It's always a better use of your time to try something and see if you like it yourself, than asking strangers. Especially when there's no inconvenience or cost of trying. How would anybody here know what your preferences are in a search engine?

Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by szszrk »

pps wrote: post #198
__jonas wrote: post #128

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I really wanted to like Kagi, I'm onboard with paying for search, but I've had had a big issue with its speed when doing the trial to be honest, am I the only one bothered by this? Perhaps this is because I'm in Europe and it's faster in the US? A search request to Kagi seems to take around two seconds for me (shows as ~1s in the Kagi UI), it just feels really unpleasant compared to Google, I'm used to firing of a co…

There's no noticeable difference in search speed between Kagi and Google for me in Poland.

Wow, this shows how personal search is. For me it's dramatic.

Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by prinny_ »

I have been paying for Kagi for the past five or six months and apart from the truly niche cases where I need top of the shelf search results the majority of the time the top results are not that much different from, say, duck duck go. My other issue is that I am on the first subscription tier which currently supports 300 searches and I often find myself reaching that limit sooner that I would like. I will continue to pay for the service, but so far the, admittedly, better results haven't given me this light and day experience other users describe. Maybe I am just not using the engine to its full potential...

Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by daft_pink »

vunderba wrote: post #141
daft_pink wrote: post #31

I love Kagi and I’m a paid user, but I’m not willing to pay $25 per month for the assistants for the following reasons: * I already pay these companies directly and wouldn’t be able to cancel these as I use the voice assistant on my phone from ChatGPT and love using the artifacts from Claude on my computer * I’m also paying raycast to access these at the touch of my keyboard and prefer to quick access use it there I…

For what it's worth, there's already a free Raycast extension that lets you supply your own OpenAI key which lets you do this pretty easily. Wherever possible, I lean towards the BYOK (bring your own key approach). https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/99c7c7c4fa02afba9...

I actually used this before but Raycast has some really nice presets or macros. I’m not sure what you’d call them, but being able to quicklink settings for different ai engines is really great.

Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by daft_pink »

DavideNL wrote: post #204
vunderba wrote: post #141

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For what it's worth, there's already a free Raycast extension that lets you supply your own OpenAI key which lets you do this pretty easily. Wherever possible, I lean towards the BYOK (bring your own key approach). https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/99c7c7c4fa02afba9...

Better yet, an Alfred Extension... ;-) https://www.alfredapp.com/whats-new/

As a previous Alfred user, I would say that I miss the way that alfred searches files better, but everything else like plugins and overall usefulness find Raycast to be way way better.

Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by bicepjai »

Hey folks, how does Kati compare to perplexity.ai ? I have been using the latter and seems like I can’t go back to anything else. I did use magi for a while but perplexity seems crazy perfect for search and quick summaries a
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