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What's Next for Kagi?

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Re: What's Next for Kagi?

#31

I have a single feature i miss from Kagi - optional search history - i sometimes find myself unable to find exactly that article/bloggpost/documentation i found using some search words i don't remember from last week.

Would browser history help here?

No. See my comment here: https://kagifeedback.org/d/4065-query-personal-search-histor...

Browser history is too short, and has a terrible interface for searching/browsing more than a few days back.

Re: What's Next for Kagi?

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would browser history help here?

No. See my comment here: https://kagifeedback.org/d/4065-query-personal-search-histor... Browser history is too short, and has a terrible interface for searching/browsing more than a few days back.

Do you delete your history regularly? At least on Firefox, I’m able to search stuff from months past just fine. Another nice thing I’ve found is simply opening up the SQLite file and running more advanced queries such as within a certain date range

Re: What's Next for Kagi?

#33

> With Kagi, for the first time in history of search engines, you are the customer and everything is built around you and your needs alone. There have been several others that attempted this. They didn't succeed. But they're not the first. I'm using SearXNG myself, which is quite similar to Kagi in that it combines search results from the other big parties (google, bing, brave). It's not quite as configurable (e.g. c…

> There have been several others that attempted this. Interesting, for my information, which companies are you referring to?

My memory is fuzzy on what I used way back in the day like this. One was a meta-search engine across general engines (eg Google) and specialized engines. It had boolean operators to let me drill into the search. I think it was Turbosearch.

Regardless, I wanted features like that on top of Google, Bing, etc. It could be free and ad supported with a user focus like DuckDuckGo.

Also, a Kagi vs DuckDuckGo comparison might be more fair than Kagi vs Google since DDG is still serving the users despite being ad driven.

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