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Been using them for about a week, very happy with it. Regional results (especially since the last update) feel as automatic as google. While I still hope they’
by Semaphor 5y ago
Been using them for about a week, very happy with it.
Regional results (especially since the last update) feel as automatic as google. While I still hope they’ll add my suggestion of a bang for region switches, most queries I do don’t need one, and it properly switches between English and German.
All of the DDG bangs. Seriosuly, search without bangs is nothing I’d ever want to go back to.
Built-In Domain Blacklist. Goodbye Pinterest. Forever.
General results are great. More relevant results than either DDG or Google and a great presentation (like showing snippets from accepted or upvoted SO answers)
And I have not even played around with advanced filters like lenses (which people in their discord seem to love).
Negatives: So far, I’d say only that the widgets are less usable than DDGs.
I had low expectations, but I’m really very positively surprised.
- drcongo 5y agoI've been in the beta for a while and I find Kagi results to be way ahead of anyone else. I've made it the default search in Alfred so that I have instant Kagi in Safari.
- snielson 5y agoI've been using Kagi for a couple months and generally like it. It's the default search engine in my browser. My only complaint is that occasionally I run a search and get zero results, like the page is literally blank (I try the search again and it is still blank). I then try the search on Google and get what I'm looking for. I guess this happens because Kagi's index is smaller, but I don't really know.
- freediver 5y agoIt happens because there is a bug that we are still trying to find :) Rest assured we will find it! (it is probably somewhere in the way we feed feed data through socket for maximum performance and something either on GCP end or our client/server code is 'too' optimized)
- trhoad 5y agoWhat's a "bang"?
- aemreunal 5y agoIt's the "!" character that you put in front of certain things, like "!g" ("bang gee") for searching Google through DuckDuckGo.
- Semaphor 5y ago!imdb for a direct IMDB search, !rt for Rotten Tomatoes, !g for google. DDG calls [0] them bangs, and as I have been using them in recent years, I use that term everywhere now. [0]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- darrenf 5y agoThe second character of the shebang #!
- skinkestek 5y agoAlso known as hashbang.
- tjungblut 5y agoAgreed, I'm also very happy so far and only had to use !g twice so far. Interestingly enough I haven't actually seen that much cross-language results (also DE/EN), even for ambiguous queries.