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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by HKayn@dormi.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

Kagi is a paid alternative to ad-supported search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo. It has recently revised its pricing model, reducing the cost for a plan with unmetered searches from $25 per month to $10.

Kagi boasts the following (and more) features:

  • Blocking or boosting specific domains in your search results
  • "Lenses", which are individual setting profiles (e.g. region locks, domain whitelists) that can be applied to search queries
  • All of the Bangs that DuckDuckGo has (e.g. type "!yt" in front of your query to immediately search on youtube.com)
  • Universal Summarizer, which works with any website, PDF document, YouTube video and more

This blog post goes into full details about Kagi's capabilities.

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[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 28 points 11 months ago

I've been using Kagi for two months and I'm loving it - the ability to control your results is amazing. Some things I do:

  • remove or downrate things like pinterest and w3schools from my results
  • rewrite www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/*
  • rewrite to send some sources through archive.today or similar to break paywalls
  • rewrite to set the language of some sites that GeoIP my location but ignore my language headers

Also, having keyboard controls - like Google used to have - is so welcome, and their AI summarisation tools are actually useful too.

[-] Joe@infosec.pub 0 points 11 months ago

How do you rewrite paywalled sites to archive.today?

[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

https://www.example.com/(.*)|https://archive.today/search/?q=https://www.example.com/$1

This takes you to the search results so it's an extra click to get to the actual page.

My actual regex is a bit more complicated since it deals with multiple domains but that's the gist.

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