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Re: Kagi, I heard about it on HN, tried it for 100 searches, then subscribed. When I search for random JS and CSS things, MDN is the first result, and if it isn

by 0x38B 3y ago

Re: Kagi, I heard about it on HN, tried it for 100 searches, then subscribed. When I search for random JS and CSS things, MDN is the first result, and if it isn't, I can downrank whatever spammy site(s) are on top. --- I wish I had a local LLM trained to detect clickbait and or low-effort content. I imagine searching YouTube and having all the clickbait collapsed together (just like Kagi condenses listicles), with the remainder being potentially high-quality content. Don't know how feasible this is right now.

shados 3y ago
I became a huge fan of Kagi after seeing it on hacker news too. It's amazing how good a search engine can be when it's not full of ads.
- D13Fd 3y ago
  Yeah. At first I primarily used Kagi to move away from Google as a company, hoping for results that were equally good. But Google search actually feels crappy now in comparison.
freeAgent 3y ago
Just use the Kagi Summarizer on YouTube videos and you don’t have to waste time watching trash. It’s a great life hack.
- xigoi 3y ago
  How does that work? Does it scrape the auto-generated captions?
  - freeAgent 3y ago
    Yeah, it uses the auto-generated transcript.
qudat 3y ago
Been paying for Kagi for 6+ months and very happy with it. I’m pretty anti subscriptions so that’s saying a lot for a service that is otherwise free. I do have to dump into google for local searches every once in awhile, but otherwise happy with it.
- 0x38B 3y ago
  I keep Google Maps around for a similar reason; Apple Maps works well, but things like business hours are wrong often enough for me to double-check in Google Maps.
  - qudat 3y ago
    Yep, same. Yelp is not nearly as good in Apple Maps but for in town directions it works great for me.
    - mgerullis 3y ago
      You use yelp for directions?
      - s3p 3y ago
        No for business info. Apple pulls directly from Yelp. issue is when you want more info or you want to get a closer look at the business and tap any of its images, it will take you straight to the app store to download Yelp.
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by 0x38B 3y ago

shados 3y ago

I became a huge fan of Kagi after seeing it on hacker news too. It's amazing how good a search engine can be when it's not full of ads.

D13Fd 3y ago
Yeah. At first I primarily used Kagi to move away from Google as a company, hoping for results that were equally good. But Google search actually feels crappy now in comparison.

freeAgent 3y ago

Just use the Kagi Summarizer on YouTube videos and you don’t have to waste time watching trash. It’s a great life hack.

xigoi 3y ago
How does that work? Does it scrape the auto-generated captions?
- freeAgent 3y ago
  Yeah, it uses the auto-generated transcript.

qudat 3y ago

Been paying for Kagi for 6+ months and very happy with it. I’m pretty anti subscriptions so that’s saying a lot for a service that is otherwise free. I do have to dump into google for local searches every once in awhile, but otherwise happy with it.

0x38B 3y ago
I keep Google Maps around for a similar reason; Apple Maps works well, but things like business hours are wrong often enough for me to double-check in Google Maps.
- qudat 3y ago
  Yep, same. Yelp is not nearly as good in Apple Maps but for in town directions it works great for me.
  - mgerullis 3y ago
    You use yelp for directions?
    - s3p 3y ago
      No for business info. Apple pulls directly from Yelp. issue is when you want more info or you want to get a closer look at the business and tap any of its images, it will take you straight to the app store to download Yelp.

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