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Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by gregdoesit »

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 the "!g" bang to go to Google.

Never thought I'd pay for search: but very happy with my choice so far. Great to see others agree on this page - as I hope they can maintain this as a viable business, and stick to the principles of users being their customers: and not advertisers.

Feels like a breath of fresh air tbh.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by jcul »

aryonoco wrote: post #17

Every once in a while, I looked for an alternative to Google. I have given them all a go, but none of them stayed as my default for more than a few days. Until Kagi. I absolutely did not think I would pay for a search engine. Especially as I've recently been on a quest to cut every unnecessary subscription. YouTube Premium is gone (thanks to 83/% family plan price hike). Half of my dozen or so domains are gone... you…

Yes, also the same experience. Who would pay for search right?

I signed up for the $10 plan, before they introduced unlimited searches. One month I went over and thought ok, I'm not really ok with making more than 10. A few weeks later they switched to unlimited.

The lens feature is great. I have one for searching my company's public documentation etc.

The redirect thing is great too, it can rewrite URLs on the fly, e.g. Reddit -> old.reddit.

I have used other search engines in the past, like ddg for a long period, and others. I always ended up just doing !g on every search.

Kagi is the first where I don't notice I'm using another search engine and actually if I'm on Google I notice my experience is worse!

Great to see updates like this, in the months I've been using it it has improved so much already.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by jcul »

throwaway81523 wrote: post #12

Kagi is ok but I don't understand the level of gushing over it that I see here. I got the 100 query free trial a few months ago and haven't used it up yet. So I'm not willing to buy a monthly subscription for something I'd rarely (won't say never) use. A flat $20 for 500 queries would be fine and might last me a year or so.

You are clearly in a different usage bracked to me.

I had the opposite problem, I used up my 1000 searches within a month and didn't want to pay more than 10$.

They since introduced unlimited searches for 10$ so I'm pretty happy.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by hovering_nox »

aryonoco wrote: post #17

Every once in a while, I looked for an alternative to Google. I have given them all a go, but none of them stayed as my default for more than a few days. Until Kagi. I absolutely did not think I would pay for a search engine. Especially as I've recently been on a quest to cut every unnecessary subscription. YouTube Premium is gone (thanks to 83/% family plan price hike). Half of my dozen or so domains are gone... you…

I feel like people are sleeping on Kagi FastGPT, its their amazing search combined with their summariser and a llm model that gives me the answers directly without having to search myself.

https://kagi.com/fastgpt

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by bayindirh »

throwaway81523 wrote: post #16
hackideiomat wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you still use other search engines? You should start to do your everyday searches on both and compare the results. For me, this showed that kagi can save me time, I'm rarely scrolling to find good results where on DDG or Google I'd rephrase and search again often. I don't like Kagi for other things, but that's not the topic here.

I mostly use DDG. Kagi results are comparable. When DDG fails I sometimes resort to Google. I can't use Kagi routinely with just 100 queries but I try it sometimes. It is subject to the same spurious results as the others afaict. And I haven't yet seen it find anything that the others missed.

The thing with Kagi is, you can demote or remove the domains which you don't want to see, making it more yours than Google.

Also, not having ads and results manipulated for money is a real, underrated gem.

I tried Kagi for a day, and signed up right away, and I don't care that I pay for it. It works wonderfully.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by reddalo »

28304283409234 wrote: post #14

For me it just brings a lot of peace of mind to be able to click on any link and not have it blocked by ublock or pihole. All links are what Kagi believes to be valid results.

Semi-off topic, but do you recommend using both uBlock and Pihole? I'm currently a uBlock user (on Firefox), and I was thinking of setting up a Pihole. Thanks!

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B »

nixass wrote: post #34

Are search results on Kagi regionalized? For example do I MUST have region set or they give me best of the best results based on my query? Google is annoying with region specific results in any of their services

By default I get international results, and I can switch with a dropdown list where my country is at the top.

Re: Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

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Post by sph »

Thanks Kagi, love these status updates.

Vlad, I know you often read these comments, so here's a suggestion: I would love a way for Kagi to respect my search query and not try to interpret or assume anything is a typo. "Verbatim" feels just too strict (I think the order of the words is important as well, doesn't return more than 2 or 3 links), where the default is too loose.

Sadly, I don't have any examples to share, but it feels that as Kagi improves, it becomes more and more Google-like, as in trying to be smart instead of following my orders. I grew up when search engines searched for keywords, and were not trying to be smart. If I search for—foo bar baz—I want to be shown all pages that contain the three words as I have spelled them. Not presenting any combination of the three as valid.

Search engines trying to be smart make the web feel so small, because all the niche variations and topics are just so hard to search for, and it is the reason I stopped using Google in the first place.

Anyway, I am a happy paying user, and love the product :)

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