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Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by D13Fd »

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #283
stavros wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The fact that people who are not affiliated with the company go out of their way to suggest people to use kagi and pay with their hard earned money is a testament to how much people enjoy and value the product. Personally, if I could own Kagi stock, I would.

Yeah. I chime in all the time to recommend it. It's a great product that I use many times every day, and I don't want to see it go away.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by Zambyte »

pona-a wrote: post #260
karaterobot wrote: post #193

Kagi has tried a few different AI solutions, and now this integration with a different search engine. I think what I want is just a redoubled focus on improving search results (not quick answers) while maintaining or improving confidentiality. If they announce that my monthly payments are going up, and I suspect it's because they're paying for partnerships with services I don't view as core to the product value that…

I believe cutting out the whole GPT craze would be best. OpenAI bills are always anything but negligible and I think most users would agree lowering the subscription cost or using it for things like Wolfram integration may be best for the core product.

I use the language model features of Kagi many times a day. Specifically, I pay for Ultimate, which gets me access to several different language model providers. I find it to be a great supplement for things that are hard to search for.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by Zambyte »

zero0529 wrote: post #67

I bought it as I needed it for an exam that needed me to do a lot of research and it combined with bing gpt really was a big help. I probably won’t use at as a main driver as I only have the 300 search a month plan and I get a feeling like I wasted a search when I searcg something stupid like x documentation.

> I get a feeling like I wasted a search when I search something stupid like x documentation.

I have unlimited searches with Kagi, but I have still gotten into a habit of obsessively taking notes. I personally use Org Roam, but I think anything with hyperlinking and allows you to take notes non-hierarchically is important. This kind of information is worth searching the web once, taking note of, and then using your notes later to access.

While yes, realistically this is just a lonesome longwinded approach to bookmarks, I have personally never found myself going back to browser bookmarks. I actually refer to my notes all the time though.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by Zambyte »

sdo72 wrote: post #241
freediver wrote: post #213

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Kagi founder here. Also a long time HN user and as such I too share your concern that we get too much exposure here. I do not know what to say but that I am eternally grateful to HN, as it is what enabled Kagi's existance. We have no marketing budget and majority of our users come from HN, so I can confirm that the comments you see here are authentic.

Hi, I appreciate your response here. However, having no marketing budget and comments being authentic don't clear those Kagi related comments from being associated with Kagi.

I use Kagi as my search engine, and GNU/Linux for my operating system. I think both people who use each of these like recommending them to people for the same reason: like like using it, and the greatest danger to not being able to use it is if no one else does, as that would cause it to cease. People recommend it because they genuinely think other people would enjoy it, but also selfishly because they want to continue to use it themselves.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by Zambyte »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #300
Zambyte wrote: post #299

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Seems like they are asking to block a domain for an individual query, or to remove it from their forums lens. It is weird that "-reddit" didn't work for them, seems like that should do it to me

Well that or let me pick sources for my lens default! Because reddit just overwhelms it with low quality content

You could create a custom Forum lens and disable the default one in favor of your own. I think a great way to do this would be a "derivative lens" feature, that way you could use all of the sources for the Forum lens, minus the ones you want to remove. I will make feature request for that probably.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by digging »

BeetleB wrote: post #165
digging wrote: post #5

I'm excited for this. I've found Kagi to be very useful having widgets like this, in addition to the search results being good. I still have DDG as my search engine for ephemeral searches[1] on my phone and I'm getting sick of it. I don't know if I'd say the result quality has been getting worse , it's just not good and hasn't been for years. Kagi on the other hand feels like an ideal subscription service. It feels l…

> [1] To force me not to leave open tabs I don't really care about, my default browser is FireFox Focus, which is strictly "incognito" mode, which means I'd have to manually log in to Kagi every time I did a search. I strongly recommend the Tab Wrangler extension. I set it to close any tabs that have not been visited in the last 6 hours. Of all the methods I've tried to deal with too many tabs, this has been the most…

On my phone, my solution has been working well for a few years.

FF Focus is my go-to browser, so most things I look up or do on the web vanish.

I have a second browser (Vanadium) with ~20 tabs open in different groups which I keep open perpetually. Things like my bank's site, my healthcare portal, other things I want to be able to stay logged into. Then there's one group for different articles I'm reading; these I close once I've exhausted the conversation and opened all the links I'm interested in.

(My desktop computer is a different matter entirely.)

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by illiac786 »

drcongo wrote: post #14
aesh2Xa1 wrote: post #10

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On mobile incognito you'd need to access that session link and go from there. You cannot just use the address/search bar, as mobile browsers like Chrome do not include a config to put the link.

On iOS Safari it works with the Kagi extension.

Works even without it and also in incognito tabs. Use your session URL. The config documentation needs some work, it's very unstructured and difficult to follow to be honest.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.h...

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by drewbitt »

martinky24 wrote: post #40

This 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…

It is expensive I'm sure - and they attested to that in their Discord - but it doesn't seem slow.

Re: Kagi and Wolfram

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Post by drewbitt »

lannisterstark wrote: post #221

Anyone using their own searx-ng, the metasearch engine? Have you tried Kagi? How is it comparatively when it comes to quality of results given that with searx I can customize the engines and such.

I kept getting rate limited or blocked with selfhosted Searx. Kagi is much better since it just works every time.
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