"Kagi Search" looks cool. The examples of searches look far superior to even that of google.
But it's $5 per month. (No ads) Or $8 for couples. Even so I think I will try it. The search results look really good.
Has anyone here used Kagi Search?
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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But it's $5 per month. (No adds)
The price seems reasonable IMO. Search engines are expensive to run, and I'm not sure they'd even be breaking even at the moment.
They have a "small web" search that searches through small sites like blogs, which I really like. Sometimes there's small sites that have great info but aren't ranked very high in Google due to all the SEO spam and Google's preference for major sites.
I wanted to like Kagi, but their Brave fiasco turned me off of them for good
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I've been using it for the last few months, and while it doesn't offer as many "nice to have" features as Google (like automatically finding mask results need in where you are), the core functionality works great, and the lack of ads is refreshing.
I tried kagi for a month and the results were probably as good or slightly better than Google for 90% of searches but it completely falls apart any time you want something local or hyper-specific. It made me realize that the personalization that people hate with Google's results actually saves a ton of time because I had to retry a lot of kagi searches with additional context.
Blocking ads and trackers in your browser and then using Google without an account will get you most of the way to what kagi is doing.
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Do it.