I use DDG daily and I'm happy with the results. In fact, I've become quite a fan of it lately. And with my ChatGPT sub, Kagi seems unnecessary.
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Huh, Norway is not in the EU.
They are part of the European Economic Area, which means they belong to the EU market and their regulations (without voting rights), but they get to keep controlling their fisheries So, in this context, they might as well be
They have access to the EU market through the EEA but do not abide to 100% of the EU rules, regulations or laws. And they can have their own rules/regulations/laws.
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> 10 dollars is like, a sandwich In Silicon Valley? Does Kagi only want to sell to techbros?
Nice troll. A footlong Ultimate BMT is $11.29 in Wichita before taxes (I just checked). Kagi builds an excellent product for a very fair price. Direct your ire elsewhere.
A footlong is rather big for an average sandwich. Half of that is easily a large sandwich by themselves. So the cost for two large sandwiches.
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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…
Is it worth $10 so you don't have to search the Python docs directly? That seems terribly wasteful (monetarily, computationally), when you could use something like devdocs, among dozens of other options.
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#435Being "apolitical" is no excuse for funding a russian company (yandex). If they did not do this I would probably be a paying customer. There is nothing else in this space that has the trust or features that kagi has. The other point I have heard them say about using yandex is that there isn't another index that they could use that would be as good. This is a sound argument, but I would rather have worse image search…
I would consider reading Vlad's response to this which is extremely measured and not at all "throwing his hands up" at the issue.
As somebody who is also not a Kagi customer because of this the statement of Vlad is exactly "throwing his hands up".
Two quotes from his response: "Any good search engine remains unimpressed by world politics." "We set out to fix search, not the world."
All the technical explanations between these two quotes could have also been used to justify why they are not contributing to Russias economy. But he didn't do that. That is a conscious choice while clearly being aware of the issue.
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I feel exactly the same way! It makes me wonder what the hell I look for on the internet vs the users complaining about the search results!
I suspect the secret sauce might be uBlock Origin. Even with basic, default filters it transforms Google into a vastly different experience.
No longer usable in chrome, but even then, just.... Idk.
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I would consider reading Vlad's response to this which is extremely measured and not at all "throwing his hands up" at the issue.
As somebody who is also not a Kagi customer because of this the statement of Vlad is exactly "throwing his hands up". Two quotes from his response: "Any good search engine remains unimpressed by world politics." "We set out to fix search, not the world." All the technical explanations between these two quotes could have also been used to justify why they are not contributing to Russias economy. But he didn't do that.…
They are contributing to Russia's economy so I'm not sure what you hoped he'd say contrary to that. I don't consider someone buying from US businesses to be any kind of implicit support of my government, while at the same
time choosing to avoid businesses from a country in the manner desired here is taking a pretty strong political stance.
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#438About a year ago, I tried the free 300 search trial. I liked it, but wasn't ready to commit to the expense. This year, they offered me a free 30 day unlimited trial, so I'm about 10 days into that. I've only used 128 searches so far. What I seem to find is that I use it, get to what I'm looking for, and move on. So it's not really on my mind. But it's subtly refreshing to spend less time fighting search to get what I…
Kagi is one of the few subscriptions I think is 100% worth the price. In fact, I’d pay double. Very happy user for almost two years.
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#439Earlier quoted context omitted.
As somebody who is also not a Kagi customer because of this the statement of Vlad is exactly "throwing his hands up". Two quotes from his response: "Any good search engine remains unimpressed by world politics." "We set out to fix search, not the world." All the technical explanations between these two quotes could have also been used to justify why they are not contributing to Russias economy. But he didn't do that.…
They are contributing to Russia's economy so I'm not sure what you hoped he'd say contrary to that. I don't consider someone buying from US businesses to be any kind of implicit support of my government, while at the same time choosing to avoid businesses from a country in the manner desired here is taking a pretty strong political stance.
I agree. He doesn't take that stance and thus I am not a customer and speaking out about it.
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And according to the link below, the Kagi founder/CEO claims Yandex is a private company headquartered in Kazakhstan, unrelated to the Russian government. https://ioc.exchange/@troed/113311987220115248
Yes and (for posterity / those lazy to read the linked Mastodon thread), if you read through the linked thread, you see that is nonsense and Yandex is very much a Russian business continually adjusting results based on Russian government input (to cross-check, see Wikipedia on Yandex).
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