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Re: Kagi Assistant

#41

Post by SirYandi »

bangaladore wrote: post #9
cstuder wrote: post #5

So for 25$ a month I get access to ChatGPT and Claude offerings in addition to access to Kagi search. This sounds like a good deal, compared to the 20$/month access to ChatGPT only. Or am I missing something?

You can use something like OpenRouter, which lets you access essentially all commercially available models. Including open-source models. There are no rate limits. You pay a different rate per model (OpenRouter shows the pricing transparently). You load your account with credits. I use it daily (undoubtedly far more than the average user) and loaded 50$ with credits five months ago, but I still have over 1/2 of it le…

Just plug your API keys into a front end like https://github.com/enricoros/big-AGI and pay as you go for all commercially available models

Re: Kagi Assistant

#42

Post by sergiotapia »

bangaladore wrote: post #9
cstuder wrote: post #5

So for 25$ a month I get access to ChatGPT and Claude offerings in addition to access to Kagi search. This sounds like a good deal, compared to the 20$/month access to ChatGPT only. Or am I missing something?

You can use something like OpenRouter, which lets you access essentially all commercially available models. Including open-source models. There are no rate limits. You pay a different rate per model (OpenRouter shows the pricing transparently). You load your account with credits. I use it daily (undoubtedly far more than the average user) and loaded 50$ with credits five months ago, but I still have over 1/2 of it le…

There's also BigAgi (really a weird ass name - probably hurting them) that is good for the same use case. Just paste in your API key and you get a really nice UI to chat through at-cost.

https://get.big-agi.com/

Re: Kagi Assistant

#43

Post by moffkalast »

dvh wrote: post #8
cstuder wrote: post #5

So for 25$ a month I get access to ChatGPT and Claude offerings in addition to access to Kagi search. This sounds like a good deal, compared to the 20$/month access to ChatGPT only. Or am I missing something?

You can not spend the $25 and you will save $25.

It's like Jensen said: The more you buy, the more you save! /s

Re: Kagi Assistant

#44

Post by traceroute66 »

I recently tried Kagi and I struggled to see the value.

For many queries side-by-side with Startpage it delivered the same results word-for-word (sure you get a few sponsored links top-3 of Startpage but its no big deal to scroll past those).

For other things, it was just plain annoying, e.g. "newest $type restaurants in $large_city" half the results on the first page were from 10 years ago (e.g. dated 2014). I mean FFS I put the word "newest" in there !

They seem to have a habit of interespersing very weird Facebook links randomly in the middle of a list of results. For example I was searching for something related to a specific Prometheus function (which I explicitly named in the query, alongside the word prometheus) and Kagi insisted on interspersing the technical results with random links to Facebook pages of companies selling "girlie dresses for proms".

I approached Kagi with an open mind, but having used up the 100 free searches nothing made me say "just shut up and take my money".

Re: Kagi Assistant

#45

Post by dubme1 »

Paid Kagi user here. I REALLY wish Kagi would focus on it's core selling point: search. Building a search engine is hard enough. I use Kagi Search everyday and I am mostly happy with it but the product has a lot of room for improvment.

Stop launching new products (browser, summarizer, gpt, assistant) while your core product is still behind the competition in many areas.

Re: Kagi Assistant

#46

Post by hollowturtle »

What’s the incentive for websites to let Kagi and others indexing content if llms in search show relevant informations right away? Wouldn’t something like perplexity ai making more sense then? Or perhaps better application of llms to search

Re: Kagi Assistant

#47

Post by recursive »

traceroute66 wrote: post #44

I recently tried Kagi and I struggled to see the value. For many queries side-by-side with Startpage it delivered the same results word-for-word (sure you get a few sponsored links top-3 of Startpage but its no big deal to scroll past those). For other things, it was just plain annoying, e.g. "newest $type restaurants in $large_city" half the results on the first page were from 10 years ago (e.g. dated 2014). I mean…

> but its no big deal to scroll past those

For some of us it is. If your search engine's revenue model is based on advertising to its users, their relationship is fundamentally adversarial. This affects all of their decisions, in ways that are sometimes hard to identify. Witness the slow decline of google search result ads.

If users are the direct source of revenue, then everyone's interests are aligned.

Also, I, and many like me, value a lack of ads much more highly than you do. Which is fine.

Re: Kagi Assistant

#49

Post by matsemann »

Isn't the point of a corporate blog to drive users to your product? Then why do the blogs never have an easy way of getting there? Clicking the logo and things in the header all just take me to the front page of the blog. Pet peeve of mine.

Re: Kagi Assistant

#50

Post by unshavedyak »

dubme1 wrote: post #45

Paid Kagi user here. I REALLY wish Kagi would focus on it's core selling point: search. Building a search engine is hard enough. I use Kagi Search everyday and I am mostly happy with it but the product has a lot of room for improvment. Stop launching new products (browser, summarizer, gpt, assistant) while your core product is still behind the competition in many areas.

Paid Kagi user here. I love the AI additions, because to me it's an alternate interface to the core selling point: search.

Whether or not Kagi can achieve more than the "search alone is hard enough" point however is fair - though i've been happy so far.

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