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Re: Kagi Small Web

#91

Post by GranPC »

civilitty wrote: post #81
dustincoates wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love it, though my only complaint is that I usually want sites in English from the US, but if I want to switch to finding sites in French in France, I have to switch regions. Google is much better at localizing me, and so I'll use !g for those.

Have you tried adding a custom bang like !fr? Point it to: https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&r=fr Where `fr` is the region code

I think these bangs are defined by default. I regularly use !es when I want local (Spain) results.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#92

Post by deepspace »

kickdaddy wrote: post #5

Kagi is worth every penny. Been using it for 6 months as my primary search engine. I think I have used the Google !g 10 or so times in that period maybe?

It is such a weird experience to do a Google search on someone else's computer after being used to Kagi. I recently requested a small usability enhancement, and it was implemented within a few weeks. Zero chance of that happening with any other search engine.

The search results are consistently better than anyone else's, including DuckDuckGo, so I am, and will remain, a happy paying customer.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#93

Post by palmer_fox »

freediver wrote: post #2

Vlad from Kagi here, thanks for posting. The RSS feed unexpectedly broke (edit: the feed is back up! [3]) just as we published the blog post, in the true spirt of "small web" :) Should be up in 30 minutes which will enable the site to function too (it uses the same feed). This has been a personal pet project of mine and I spent considerable time getting my hands dirty with the code, as the team was busy with other in…

The more I uses Kagi (paid) the more I am feeling sad for the possibility that it might go away if it doesn't get more traction.

For me you represent an incredible accomplishment: the first search engine that gives better results than Google, respects privacy, offers customization and so much more.

Thank you.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#94

Post by k0k0r0 »

Kagi appearently had a project "expertGPT" (contrast to FastGPT). Does anybody know what happened to that one?

On a side note, there is now a - to my best knowledge - completely unrelated product "ExpertGPT" from some totally different company. I am not talking about that one.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#95

Post by mikae1 »

epilys wrote: post #27
freediver wrote: post #2

Vlad from Kagi here, thanks for posting. The RSS feed unexpectedly broke (edit: the feed is back up! [3]) just as we published the blog post, in the true spirt of "small web" :) Should be up in 30 minutes which will enable the site to function too (it uses the same feed). This has been a personal pet project of mine and I spent considerable time getting my hands dirty with the code, as the team was busy with other in…

Discord really? why not IRC? I don't think having to use proprietary communication software that require accounts did with small web and open source.

> why not IRC?

why not Matrix? I think that's a more realistic alternative. :)

Re: Kagi Small Web

#96

Post by raybb »

k0k0r0 wrote: post #94

Kagi appearently had a project "expertGPT" (contrast to FastGPT). Does anybody know what happened to that one? On a side note, there is now a - to my best knowledge - completely unrelated product "ExpertGPT" from some totally different company. I am not talking about that one.

Huh I wonder that too. Seems it hasn't been mentioned on the forums for a few months. So maybe they decided it wasn't worth it to keep that experiment running.

https://kagifeedback.org/?sort=latest&q=expertgpt

Re: Kagi Small Web

#97

Post by tacon »

freediver wrote: post #2

Vlad from Kagi here, thanks for posting. The RSS feed unexpectedly broke (edit: the feed is back up! [3]) just as we published the blog post, in the true spirt of "small web" :) Should be up in 30 minutes which will enable the site to function too (it uses the same feed). This has been a personal pet project of mine and I spent considerable time getting my hands dirty with the code, as the team was busy with other in…

Your reference [2] is to the YouTube channel list. I think you meant to link to

https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx...

Re: Kagi Small Web

#98

Post by leokennis »

deepspace wrote: post #92
kickdaddy wrote: post #5

Kagi is worth every penny. Been using it for 6 months as my primary search engine. I think I have used the Google !g 10 or so times in that period maybe?

It is such a weird experience to do a Google search on someone else's computer after being used to Kagi. I recently requested a small usability enhancement, and it was implemented within a few weeks. Zero chance of that happening with any other search engine. The search results are consistently better than anyone else's, including DuckDuckGo, so I am, and will remain, a happy paying customer.

Out of curiosity, what searches or types of searches get you desired results on Kagi but not on DDG?

I tried Kagi for about a week, and it felt more or less identical in quality to DDG, just infinitely more expensive as DDG costs nothing.

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