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Well Google is making more me convinced each day with my investment in kagi $10 subscription. Kagi native support for archive wayback is one of the most useful

Well Google is making more me convinced each day with my investment in kagi $10 subscription. Kagi native support for archive wayback is one of the most useful features for me.

jfoutz 3y ago
Kagi is rad. I signed up about two months ago. yeah. I'm not comfortable using it at work, so I search on my personal phone. it works like google should (or did). It's hard to quantify. But yeah. Write your own engine (which isn't crazy) or pay someone to do it for you (my solution). Yeah. it's worth a few bucks.
- jpalomaki 3y ago
  I believe the reason why Kagi "feels right" for ex-Google users is that they are actually using Google to power the search [1]. They have other sources as well, but since it feels so natural after 25 years of daily Googling, I assume Google is quite important source for generic search. [1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
  - jfoutz 3y ago
    this makes me want to roll my own. But it's such a huge undertaking (maybe?). I didn't realize it was a rebalancing. But seriously, I have no regrets. if nothing else, the incentive alignment matches my values better.
  - b112 3y ago
    "But most importantly, we are known for our unique results, coming from our web index (internal name - Teclis) and news index (internal name - TinyGem). Kagi's indexes provide unique results that help you discover non-commercial websites and "small web" discussions" They say that what makes them usable, their results most topical, is their own index. They also list Google as an ancillary, as well as many others. But the "feel" is more from the UI, and the relevance of the results. Both of these ways Google completely fails on now.
nomilk 3y ago
Can you explain the UX. Is it just one click to go to the latest wayback machine version of the site or something like that? (it was on my 'to do' list to either find or make an extension that does this, so kagi could be quite useful to me also)
- N-Krause 3y ago
  There are three dots right next to the result, from that menu you can open the result on archive.org in another tab. [1] But you probably can somehow move the link to a more prominent position as Kagi does support custom css that is served with your search results. [2] 1 https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalized-results.html#quick-actions-menu https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize... 2 https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/custom-css.html#customizing-kagi-css https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/custom-css.html#customiz...
  - nomilk 3y ago
    Sounds a straight-forward as hoped. Ty!

Well Google is making more me convinced each day with my investment in kagi $10 subscription. Kagi native support for archive wayback is one of the most useful features for me.

jfoutz 3y ago

Kagi is rad. I signed up about two months ago. yeah. I'm not comfortable using it at work, so I search on my personal phone. it works like google should (or did). It's hard to quantify. But yeah. Write your own engine (which isn't crazy) or pay someone to do it for you (my solution). Yeah. it's worth a few bucks.

jpalomaki 3y ago
I believe the reason why Kagi "feels right" for ex-Google users is that they are actually using Google to power the search [1]. They have other sources as well, but since it feels so natural after 25 years of daily Googling, I assume Google is quite important source for generic search. [1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
- jfoutz 3y ago
  this makes me want to roll my own. But it's such a huge undertaking (maybe?). I didn't realize it was a rebalancing. But seriously, I have no regrets. if nothing else, the incentive alignment matches my values better.
- b112 3y ago
  "But most importantly, we are known for our unique results, coming from our web index (internal name - Teclis) and news index (internal name - TinyGem). Kagi's indexes provide unique results that help you discover non-commercial websites and "small web" discussions" They say that what makes them usable, their results most topical, is their own index. They also list Google as an ancillary, as well as many others. But the "feel" is more from the UI, and the relevance of the results. Both of these ways Google completely fails on now.

nomilk 3y ago

Can you explain the UX. Is it just one click to go to the latest wayback machine version of the site or something like that? (it was on my 'to do' list to either find or make an extension that does this, so kagi could be quite useful to me also)

N-Krause 3y ago
There are three dots right next to the result, from that menu you can open the result on archive.org in another tab. [1] But you probably can somehow move the link to a more prominent position as Kagi does support custom css that is served with your search results. [2] 1 https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalized-results.html#quick-actions-menu https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize... 2 https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/custom-css.html#customizing-kagi-css https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/custom-css.html#customiz...
- nomilk 3y ago
  Sounds a straight-forward as hoped. Ty!