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A new kind of search engine
..powered by cellular automata!
Be careful with rule 34, though.
Kagi and Wolfram
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#272I’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.
Can you expand on the “adding ?” - I’m unclear what you mean..?
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#273Really glad to see so much Kagi love here. It’s such a great search experience
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#274TIL 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.
The headquarters are in Champaign, IL which is a small town with a much lower cost of living than Silicon Valley - so salaries are 20-40% lower than Automattic or other comparable mid-sized firm. The main revenue driver is Mathematica (now called the Wolfram Language) which has several lucrative and long-standing academic licensing deals in place. I don't think the other endeavors (Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram cloud, book…
I interned there and got an offer over a decade ago; notnsure if better now, but starting pay was 50% silicon valley.
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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.
Search definitely sucks, but I don't know if it sucks enough for $10/mo. I'll try Kagi and see, though.
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#276Every day I'm getting closer to buying a kagi subscription.
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#277How is Kagi compared to You.com?
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#278> 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"?
Where do you use a MIDI synthesizer that it needs to be waterproof? In the rain, the ocean, the bathtub? Inquiring minds want to know!
In case your in the bath, poked holes in the bar of soap and want to oscillate the bubbles in to midi notes so you can code your new cloud platform with Velato?
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Kagi sends “anonymized API calls to traditional search indexes like Google, Yandex, Mojeek and Brave, specialized search engines like Marginalia, and sources of vertical information like Wolfram Alpha, Apple, Wikipedia, Open Meteo, Yelp, TripAdvisor and other APIs,” and also maintains its own “web index (internal name - Teclis) and news index (internal name - TinyGem)” [1]. [1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-detai…
Umm, So Google and MS can leave Kagi high and dry if it eats into their revenue?
they can, on the other hand, kagi launched recently something that would improve the crawling process
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#280> 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.
Hahahahahahaha sooooo trrruuuueeeeeeee Let’s upload also a 2 GB paper with lots Of graphics and Mma code on ArXiv because everyone on ArXiv is looking forward to it
Facts folks no need to keep downvoting. These are facts. But feel free to show ur ignorance and hatred if u must.