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What a mistake by Vladimir Prelovac to get Stephen numbram involved. I was considering continuing My subscription to KAgi but Finding out that kagi becomes A wolfram toy - no thank u. I pass. Wolfram alpha works only half the time Correctly for anything practically useful. And half of the time it works, it’s pain To make it work. Uggghhh wolfman.
> 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 configured Reddit as a "Lense" (similar to what Kagi uses for things like searching across Forums, or news). With that, now I have a simple toggle at the top of Kagi which allows me to immediately turn a search into a Reddit search.
> 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 configured Reddit as a "Lense" (similar to what Kagi uses for things like searching across Forums, or news). With that, now I have a simple toggle at the top of Kagi which allows me to immediately turn a search into a Reddit search.
Wolfram Alpha still has the same old bug: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2016-04-04+to+2019-01-3... = 2 years 9 months 27 days https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2019-01-31+to+2016-04-0... = 2 years 9 months 26 days The duration should be identical but is off by one day. One day a space mission will fail due to this bug. Reported several times, they never cared.
Jan 2024 - Nov 2023 example (both cases show "2 months 1 day"):
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2024-01-31+to+2023-11-2...
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2024-01-30+to+2023-11-2...
Aug 2024 - Jun 2024 example (same bug):
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2024-08-31+to+2024-06-2...
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2024-08-30+to+2024-06-2...
The same thing doesn't happen from Jul 2024 - May 2024 (results vary by 1 day):
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2024-07-31+to+2024-05-2...
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2024-07-30+to+2024-05-2...
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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.
To me Kagi is as much a life changer on the web as ad-blockers are: Whenever I use a computer without them, I realize how poor the user experience is and how much time and energy is wasted just to filter noise from ads and poor content.
Zero ads. User centric features being rolled out. Kagi has improved more in the last 6 months than google did in 10 years that I used the product.
> 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.
I’ve been a paying Kagi customer for a few months now. It has reconciled me with search. Result quality is great, and the tools like fastgpt and the summarizer are precious. I was a bit reluctant but I don’t regret doing it. Really happy to see Wolfram added to it!
It feels like a glass of water on a hot day, when you didn't even realize you were thirsty. Suddenly you can find things again. Recently I've been adding ? to a number of queries, to play with its knowledge graph and answering capabilities. It's been remarkably useful at surfacing information.
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Mathematica is a commercial product: https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/pricing/
Who uses Mathematica, in this age of python/Julia etc? The Grad student world seems to be captured by Matlab
> 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"?
It's OK. One thing it does is rope "reddit" into the "Forums" Lens, which on face seems good but I search mostly for car stuff and forums are a trove there. Feature request: block a domain? "saab 900 power steering rack -reddit" still returns a ton of reddit results.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize...
You can block specific domains, as well as make them rank lower. And if you ever want to ignore those rules, you can easily do that too!
Not affiliated with Kagi in any way, just a very happy user.
> 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.