I paid for 3 months. Kagi was okay, but it's not really a search engine like I use search engines. They only ever returned This "We know what you want, you don't get lists of stuff." is their core ideology. So I stopped paying them and use lots of other search engines.
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#372> The results were all about obtaining an ETA and I picked a link that looked like the official UK government site. It was not; [...]
If you want an official website, always follow the link to the Wikipedia article, and there click on the link to the official website.
Also, I find Duckduckgo a lot better than Google in general.
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#373Posting for the unaware, without commentary on the content - just an FYI because it's something that matters to me, at least: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
I also want to add that Kagi recently partnered with a Russian state-owned search engine Yandex: https://kagi.com/changelog#5340 . This means they are paying money to the Russian state through taxes and sharing my search queries with it. This was a critical issue for me, and it led me to stop using it and request a refund earlier this year.
And according to the link below, the Kagi founder/CEO claims Yandex is a private company headquartered in Kazakhstan, unrelated to the Russian government.
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#374No thanks. I'm not sending money and traffic to Yandex. I'm going to give Qwant a go (French company, headquartered in Paris)
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#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you give some examples of specific queries (like, tell me exactly what to type into the search bar) where you find Kagi returns better results than Google or DDG? I tried Kagi a couple times and didn't notice a significant difference in result quality, so I'd like to see what people find so nice about it.
You can blacklist whole domains (or subdomains) as well as upranking or downranking specific sites. This lets you avoid the seo spam (particularly bad for programming sites). For example. Say I want to know more about python’s built in sum() functions. A google search for “Python sum function” produces results on the first page from: - w3school - GeeksforGeeks - real python - programiz - code academy And only after d…
I haven't set up blacklist for my kagi account. Searched for "python sum", got a link to the python doc as the first result. So imo. you dont need a blacklist.
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#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
10 dollars is like, a sandwich. Access to your search engine for a month is less useful than a sandwich?
It's a sandwich _subscription_. If you keep thinking like that, it's death by a thousand cuts.
I think that's sort of the nature of sandwiches. You have to keep paying for them if you want to keep eating them.
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#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm in the capital city of Germany, a sandwich in the bakery around the corner is about 3-4 euros.
Wish I could say I was surprised. I bet the bread is better too.
Depends. Not always.
But there is this one shop selling shawarma sandwich made to fresh bread that costs 3.90€. And that is already a good lunch.
A döner sandwich can cost 2.90€ the cheapest.
Bakeries have baguettes with cheese and ham for 4-5 euros.
If you go to Mitte, a döner can already be 6-9 euros. And that is expensive.
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#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kagi isn't competing against no access to a search engine, it's competing against Google, DDG, etc etc which are free (or more specifically, you could say ads are the cost). Kagi needs to not just be worth $10, but also worth ($10 - ads) more than the alternatives.
It is EASILY worth that. It’s a tool that I use constantly every day for work and at home. I literally never fall back to using Google anymore. Google results turned to doggie doo years ago and getting what I need at the top of the list again is worth every penny. Kagi is like Google from 10 years ago if they had kept optimizing it for quality instead of enshitifying it to increase revenue.
I'm glad it provided you with that much value! When I gave Kagi a try, the results weren't as impactful for me, so paying for the service didn't make sense. Things have different values to different people, and that's okay.