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I have to say their own homepage does not inspire confidence - it currently shows three sample search results, and clicking on the first, "best headphones" has

I have to say their own homepage does not inspire confidence - it currently shows three sample search results, and clicking on the first, "best headphones" has quietheadphones.com, a parked domain, as the fourth result. For comparison DDG shows a bunch of headphone review sites, all of which seems reasonably reputable. In fact all three of these have some odd results - - "steve jobs"'s fifth result is a YouTube video of Steve Jobs at a 2003 conference, but the result is linked to a seemingly random 2606s timestamp and it is right below the Videos section with much more relevant videos - "python exceptions"'s second result is a blog post about Python exceptions being anti-patterns. I've not used Python in a while but that seems very wrong, and a terrible result to show to someone who might be learning Python or looking up how Exceptions work.

Nextgrid 4y ago
> clicking on the first, "best headphones" has quietheadphones.com, a parked domain, as the fourth result. On the other hand, having such an obvious mistake on the homepage makes me trust more that they believe in their product enough to give you raw, real results (which may sometimes include stale content such as a parked domain) rather than a manually-crafted "perfect" results page that wouldn't be representative of the real product at all.
gamegoblin 4y ago
Kagi is great for the kind of searches I do -- mainly searching for wikipedia articles, stackoverflow questions, etc. If I ever want to buy a product I don't know much about, I usually spend some time reading the megathread on whatever niche subreddit there is on the topic. When I search Kagi for "best headphones" the first link on the page is to /r/HeadphoneAdvice, which is probably where I'd want to go. There are some not as good results down the page, but I never would have even seen them because the 1st link is what I wanted. For "python exceptions" the top links are all to the python.org docs about exceptions, which is almost certainly what I wanted with that generic search. If I search "steve jobs" or really <any famous person or event>, I want the wikipedia article 99% of the time, and that is the #1 result. I've gotten increasingly frustrated with google in the last few years that they've gone away from this behavior for lots of searches. Sometimes the wikipedia article isn't even on the first page. So, for my use cases, Kagi is behaving totally optimally for all these searches.
Terretta 4y ago
If you're a searching for headphones kind of user, check out neeva.com. I subscribe to kagi.com and neeva.com but only use neeva for consumer goods searching: https://neeva.com/search?q=best+headphones&src=mkthome https://neeva.com/search?q=best+headphones&src=mkthome

Nextgrid 4y ago

> clicking on the first, "best headphones" has quietheadphones.com, a parked domain, as the fourth result. On the other hand, having such an obvious mistake on the homepage makes me trust more that they believe in their product enough to give you raw, real results (which may sometimes include stale content such as a parked domain) rather than a manually-crafted "perfect" results page that wouldn't be representative of the real product at all.

gamegoblin 4y ago

Kagi is great for the kind of searches I do -- mainly searching for wikipedia articles, stackoverflow questions, etc. If I ever want to buy a product I don't know much about, I usually spend some time reading the megathread on whatever niche subreddit there is on the topic. When I search Kagi for "best headphones" the first link on the page is to /r/HeadphoneAdvice, which is probably where I'd want to go. There are some not as good results down the page, but I never would have even seen them because the 1st link is what I wanted. For "python exceptions" the top links are all to the python.org docs about exceptions, which is almost certainly what I wanted with that generic search. If I search "steve jobs" or really <any famous person or event>, I want the wikipedia article 99% of the time, and that is the #1 result. I've gotten increasingly frustrated with google in the last few years that they've gone away from this behavior for lots of searches. Sometimes the wikipedia article isn't even on the first page. So, for my use cases, Kagi is behaving totally optimally for all these searches.

Terretta 4y ago

If you're a searching for headphones kind of user, check out neeva.com. I subscribe to kagi.com and neeva.com but only use neeva for consumer goods searching: https://neeva.com/search?q=best+headphones&src=mkthome https://neeva.com/search?q=best+headphones&src=mkthome