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Kagi and Wolfram
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#32I tried Kagi and it was meh. I may try it again if they actually integrated unit conversions in search results.
Kagi does unit and currency conversion.
It doesn't work that way in the actual search results:
https://kagi.com/search?q=iphone+case+%2450..%2460
All my results are in dollars. And they're not in range.
Re: Kagi and Wolfram
#33Why am I starting to see a lot of promotional statements within HN? Are there any bot or some army of manual labor around?
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#34I pay for Kagi’s duo plan, $14/month or $151.20/year [1], a discount which implies a 10% cost of capital.
At that discount rate, a lifetime membership at $1,680 would be rational for Kagi ($600 individual). And at that price, I’d pay! Hell, do $3k flat (5% cost of capital; ~$1k individual) and throw in an annual in-person event and I’d call it a great deal. For Kagi, moreover, it would be permanent capital.
(I would also love for Kagi to launch a K-12 education product, possibly marketed at first to PTAs.)
[1] https://kagi.com/settings?p=billing_plan&plan=family&period=...
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#35> 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"?
There are built-in bangs for reddit, and users can prioritize reddit.com as a domain if they'd like.
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#36Did kagi recently (past 12 months) add the unlimited plan? Last time I checked even my human search usage was way beyond their limits (Google regularly accuses me of being a bot!), and my primary interest was in 100Xing that volume with autonomous agents.
Now it says unlimited, but I'm not sure "you and a swarm of a thousand digital clones" counts as fair use...
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#37> 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"?
> How well does kagi work for niche "reddit queries" like "best waterproof midi synthesizers reddit"?
I’ve started using their quick answers to sort through the crud. In most cases, it catches and filters out the obviously-bought Reddit recommendations, surfacing bloggers and niche industry publications that did their own lab work.
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#38> 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 has "lenses" that you can tailor yourself. Just pay and try it. Cancel if it's not your goto in a month.
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#39I’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!
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#40This is probably similar to the Wolfram|Alpha + Siri integration (which AFAIK no longer exists):
- Kagi will rely on Wolfram's okay-ish stack to immediately add features to their engine
- Kagi will, over time, 1-by-1 remove the reliance on the (generally slow and expensive) Wolfram API with built-in features
- Once the meat of the features have been rewritten internally by Kagi in more performant and self-controlled ways, remove the dependence on the slow and expensive Wolfram API
Not saying that's a bad thing, but it's quite likely this is how it plays out. We've seen it before.