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Fellow Kagi user here and for me the search results are so similar to Google's that day-to-day I don't notice which search engine I'm using. This is good and ba

Fellow Kagi user here and for me the search results are so similar to Google's that day-to-day I don't notice which search engine I'm using. This is good and bad: Kagi is on par with Google but for me it hasn't enough benefit to pay for it in the long run. When it comes to your point of repeated searches: I wish my search results would be a combination of global (unpersonalized) ranking and local personalized ranking. The global ranking would filter out spam and useless content but the final ordering of the results could be determined by a locally running algorithm that learns my preferences. For example when searching for Rust it could filter out all gaming related content and only present me the programming language related results.

NerdiDotOrg 3y ago
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- roblabla 3y ago
  Kagi is fairly recent, something like a year old, so having 15 years in tech won't help you here. I doubt they're astroturfing like you're claiming, they actually have a decent number of users and a good following on HN. You can look at the numbers their previous posts on HN did[0]. Disclaimer: I'm also a happy user. [0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=kagi https://hn.algolia.com/?q=kagi
hammyhavoc 3y ago
People complain about how terrible Google's search results are with unrelated spam cluttering most SERPs. Do you find that to be the case on Kagi?
- leadingthenet 3y ago
  I’m not the OP, but in my opinion, yes, absolutely. Kagi makes it really easy to completely filter out certain domains, raise or lower the priorities for others, and to even pin results from your favourite sites.
  - hammyhavoc 3y ago
    Interesting! I'll have to check it out. Not being able to filter domains automatically filter or prioritize certain domains has become a real point of annoyance for me. Main one being all these spammy StackExchange mirrors and similar. A lot of ChatGPT-like blogspam that just seem to be pages to get people to go and buy something from Amazon too.
- weinzierl 3y ago
  Good point. I use Kagi like it was Google and I'm so used to unrelated spam that it doesn't bother me much (sadly). I cannot tell if it is more or less on Kagi. I only realized after reading your comment that I can block and boost results in Kagi and I will definitely start using that. I think I did injustice to Kagi in my previous comment, because it does more or less what I wished for without me noticing. (The fact that I pay for it makes it even more embarrassing;-)
smcin 3y ago
Can you give us a sample Kagi search or two which do significantly better than Google?

NerdiDotOrg 3y ago

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roblabla 3y ago
Kagi is fairly recent, something like a year old, so having 15 years in tech won't help you here. I doubt they're astroturfing like you're claiming, they actually have a decent number of users and a good following on HN. You can look at the numbers their previous posts on HN did[0]. Disclaimer: I'm also a happy user. [0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=kagi https://hn.algolia.com/?q=kagi

hammyhavoc 3y ago

People complain about how terrible Google's search results are with unrelated spam cluttering most SERPs. Do you find that to be the case on Kagi?

leadingthenet 3y ago
I’m not the OP, but in my opinion, yes, absolutely. Kagi makes it really easy to completely filter out certain domains, raise or lower the priorities for others, and to even pin results from your favourite sites.
- hammyhavoc 3y ago
  Interesting! I'll have to check it out. Not being able to filter domains automatically filter or prioritize certain domains has become a real point of annoyance for me. Main one being all these spammy StackExchange mirrors and similar. A lot of ChatGPT-like blogspam that just seem to be pages to get people to go and buy something from Amazon too.
weinzierl 3y ago
Good point. I use Kagi like it was Google and I'm so used to unrelated spam that it doesn't bother me much (sadly). I cannot tell if it is more or less on Kagi. I only realized after reading your comment that I can block and boost results in Kagi and I will definitely start using that. I think I did injustice to Kagi in my previous comment, because it does more or less what I wished for without me noticing. (The fact that I pay for it makes it even more embarrassing;-)

smcin 3y ago

Can you give us a sample Kagi search or two which do significantly better than Google?