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Kagi Snaps
- apearson 2y agoBangs but better
- oatsandsugar 2y agoI expect this in search engines. I have to test this for searching websites with difficult to use search like Reddit or the Nike website.
- juujian 2y agoNow add a snap for local search in my machine and it's all I have ever wanted :)
- rank0 2y agoSick idea. We’ll need an OpenSearch or equivalent cluster indexing your local fs right? Can we do this just in browser (and would we even want to)?
- noident 2y agoDo snaps offer any advantages over site:whatever.com?
- louthy 2y agoLess typing
- frereubu 2y agoMarginally quicker to type: @r vs site:reddit.com After a few tries, I also find the first more intuitive.
- unshavedyak 2y agoIt's nice too. I have several "Snaps" before snaps existed, i used `!red` for `site:reddit.com`/`!sub rust` for `site:reddit.com/r/rust` searches and whatnot. `@red` will be a lot easier!
- nomilk 2y agoChrome has had a similar feature for many years. Arguably quicker because you can assign any key press(es) you like. For example I have mine setup such that typing ‘drive foo’ searches Google drive for the term foo. I had kagi as my default search engine but had Google easily available as a back up by typing ‘g <search term>’ in the address bar. Unfortunately, having both search engines easily available led me to discover as much as I like Kagi I just use google more, despite its ads. Google is faster to get answers to simple questions (it usually answers them on the results page, without another click) and shows more results, although you need an extension for the latter. More info on how to set up these shortcuts here: https://superuser.com/a/1806652 https://superuser.com/a/1806652
- throwup238 2y ago> Google is faster to get answers to simple questions (it usually answers them on the results page, without another click) and shows more results, although you need an extension for the latter. Kagi has a quick answer feature: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/quick-answer.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/quick-answer.html If you add a question mark to the end of your query, it uses an LLM to generate an answer using the first few results (with citations to the sources).
- oktoberpaard 2y agoWhat you’re referring to are bangs, which Kagi has offered for a long time already. For your example that would be !g to search on Google. You can also add custom bangs. The new snaps addition is something else: it gives you Kagi search results, but limited to that website. It’s the same as adding site:stackoverflow.com to your search query, but with an easier syntax (same syntax as bangs, but with an @ instead of an exclamation mark).
- zorked 2y agoIt appears to be a UI thing, but it's an excellent UI thing: it reuses familiar bangs and has an autocomplete/discovery mode for new bang codes.
- 7fYZ7mJh3RNKNaG 2y agoI'm sure it's highly likely google will either heavily deprecate/drop this feature altogether. It's already happened with other query tricks.
- drekipus 2y agoThis looks cool but is too similar to "site: reddit.com" for me. What would be super awesome, imo, would be if I could assign "some sites" as a short code, then snaps that. So for instance, I might put html, phoenix, CSS, and tailwind spec/references all as one grouping, and then I can search "select drop-down @phoenix" - and search for that across all references (so I can see the html spec alongside the tailwind and phoenix docs)
- throwup238 2y agoYou can create a custom lens that includes those sites and point a custom bang at it. For example I have a custom QT lens that only includes results from [*.qt.io, *.stackoverflow.com, *.github.com...] and a !qt bang pointing to it at https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&l=8 https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&l=8 (you'll have to change the l= id to point at your lens)
- freediver 2y agoYou can already do that with Kagi lenses (if I understand you correctly)
- SOLAR_FIELDS 2y agoI would also say that probably this feature was nearly custom made for Reddit and there are few other sites that you would probably use it on. For this feature to be useful, a few things need to be true: 1. The site has a lot of content worth parsing such that it's worthwhile to limit your search to only that site. 2. The site itself has a garbage search functionality that you would not want to use instead 3. You need to be searching that site frequently enough that there is a need to shorthand it instead of typing out the long form syntax 4. The site must have content that is generally picked up best by a traditional search indexer e.g. mostly be text based in what you want to search There are relatively few sites like that in existence. Probably if I mentioned the above requirements to anyone well versed in internet, Reddit would be the immediate first example out of anyone's mouth. Perhaps there are a few other sites that might meet the mark (Stackoverflow and Github come to mind in my example, or possibly other social media giants heavier in text based content as well. Or Hacker News, ofc). But most other large sites' search story is better enough that even then I would probably not naturally use this feature instead.
- create-username 2y agoBangs are nice on the browser but Alfred is faster and more intuitive. I’m combining them I wish there were Alfred alternatives for other operating systems
- Hackbraten 2y agoSuch as Albert? [0] [0]: https://albertlauncher.github.io https://albertlauncher.github.io
- chrisweekly 2y agoGreat feature! Kagi is awesome. See also the settings for personalized results - block useless domains from even appearing. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/personalized-results.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/personalized-results.htm...
- denismi 2y agoThey've seemed very focused on their AI assistant recently, so I'm happy to see a useful new search feature. Happy to see that custom bangs work (eg a discourse forum I visit), but eventually I'd like to specify how far along the path to "snap". I'd like my @javadoc to hit `site:docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/23/docs/api/` instead of the current `site:docs.oracle.com`.
- freediver 2y agoCheck the latest release notes for all search improvements that went out in this release: https://kagi.com/changelog#4813 https://kagi.com/changelog#4813
- mococa 2y agoI have stopped to pay Kagi because their obsession to employ AI everywhere.
- mococa 2y agoI am leaving Google because the AI crap.
- mococa 2y agoI mean: Companies seem to be using AI everywhere without a clear justification, just for the sake of using it, but that’s not the issue. The problem is that Google ruined its reputation by showing completely inaccurate results when it started displaying AI-generated results.
- bayindirh 2y agoThey are much more level headed about it, and they openly say that “AI is a tool and addition to search. Kagi is fine without it”. For their rationale, see “LLM Features” page in their help, which is linked at the bottom of Kagi Snaps page. I don’t use any LLM features of Kagi, and it’s not hindered in any way.
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- ldoughty 2y agoThis is why we need competition, and to stop the big guys from buying the small guys. This is trying to innovate for the customer, making search better for my areas of interest and desires. One of the few subscriptions that make me very happy. Thank you Kagi folk that hang out here.
- lofaszvanitt 2y agoKagi is becoming the new google. Same thing, offered in a new package. If there are 100 good results for a query, why always show the same results in the same order?
- bayindirh 2y agoBecause of their “we serve the results as is and you customize the results yourself” policy? Kagi doesn’t have search history of any of their users, so they can randomize them at best, which makes no sense.
- NetOpWibby 2y ago> Kagi is becoming the new google Kagi has exclusivity deals with trillion-dollar corporations and a monopoly on search?
- nozzlegear 2y agoThat seems like a particularly bad faith interpretation of their assertion.
- illiac786 2y agoI disagree. What makes Google Google nowadays is their size. For example, they are full of AI results because these sites optimise until they show up in Google results first pages. Why, because Google owns the largest share of the search market. Kagi has 30k subscribers, it is totally uninteresting to these AI results farms. This is just one example, but I hope you see my point. I cannot see Kagi beginning to compare to Google. I think what OP meant was that he dislikes kagi’s search algorithm on a specific ground that also happens to apply to Google. The way it’s phrased is pure trolling though, or clickbait if you prefer.
- JacobHenner 2y agoSee also: DuckDuckGo's Bangs - https://duckduckgo.com/bangs https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
- changing1999 2y agoKagi has bangs. This is different. It's a shortcut for "site: somesite.com", while a bang just redirects to the somesite.com search results page.
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- prophesi 2y agoAnother interesting thing to note in the recent release[0] is that they now have an Android app in the Play Store, and it will pave the way to include Kagi in the default search engine list for Android and Chrome. > Additionally, a recent EU ruling presents a significant opportunity for Kagi. Google is now required to include any search engine that meets specific criteria, such as having an app with over 5,000 installs, in the default list for Android and Chrome. [0] https://kagi.com/changelog#4813 https://kagi.com/changelog#4813
- al_borland 2y agoWhy would an app be a requirement for a search engine? To me it would make more sense to be aligned with how many users the search engine has. 5,000 unique per month, or whatever. I have the Kagi app on my iPhone, but just so it can be an extension in Safari. In a perfect world, I would be able to go into the settings, add a custom search engine, and be done with it. No app or extension needed. Then when it hits a threshold it can be added as an easy option for people to pick from a list.
- bayindirh 2y ago> Why would an app be a requirement for a search engine? Because otherwise you can’t use it as a default search engine on the platform, because it doesn’t allow it. Same for iOS. They had to write an app to intercept search requests and redirect to Kagi.
- al_borland 2y agoI suppose. Since there was a threshold to cross, I was assuming the search would need to get baked in as an option natively. I tend to like how Firefox does it, where any search the user goes to, there is an option to add it as a search option and set it as the default. This should be the standard all browsers use. Junking up a phone with apps just for what is ultimately a setting change isn’t ideal. The hacks Kagi has to do for Safari is annoying. They’ve gone so far as to make their own browser to make it better, though I’m sure that’s not their only reason. I’ve had some issues with the Safari extension over the years. I hope Apple changes their approach on this.
- al_borland 2y agoThis is nice. I previously made a custom bang for reddit to do exactly this. I guess I can delete that now and do the same thing on every site without all the setup. Kagi is so nice. They give me the power to do these things on my own, while adding it in natively so over time less and less setup is actually needed. Kagi is one of the few subscription I don’t think about cancelling on a weekly basis.
- kstrauser 2y agoAwwww, yeah. One of my favorite features just got a lot better in a way that seems totally obvious now that I’ve heard about it, but hadn’t even occurred to me until then. I’m a very happy user, coincidentally wearing the shirt they sent me.
- ubutler 2y agoI had already started using Kagi to create bangs that run searches like “site:reddit.com %s” but glad to see this made even easier!
- calmbonsai 2y ago"Snaps is an exclusive Kagi Search feature that allows you to easily limit search results to a specific website..." WTF is this marketing bullshit?! Default Google Search is useless now and I'm rooting for Kagi, but this "exclusive" untruth is decidedly NOT the way to "win". Google's "site:<domain>" search has been around for years: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/search-operators/all-search-site https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/sear... Not related, DuckDuckGo's "bangs" https://duckduckgo.com/bangs https://duckduckgo.com/bangs which has, likewise, been around for years. *sigh*
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- ajdude 2y agoIt clearly shows in the example that @r translated to "site:www.reddit.com" in their resulting search- I did not read "supporting domain search in general" as being Kagi specific. The Kagi specific part is /easily/ searching a site in Kagi. The whole point here is that they are extending the already supported bangs[1] to search the domain with "@", thus if "!r" exists to redirect to Reddit's search, you can use @r to search Reddit within Kagi. Of course I could type "site:Reddit.com" that's what I've been doing for years, including on Kagi, but easily doing that with @<bang> seems exclusive to Kagi. [1] Kagi maintains an open source list of supported bangs here, you can even do a PR to add even more: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs
- calmbonsai 2y agoMy concern was not with the ability to do the "site-specific search", but the bullshit regarding this feature to be "exclusive" to Kagi. If you're saying a different syntax makes something exclusive, I have some highly non-performant macros to sell you.
- eviks 2y agoAll you have to do is not cut off (in the quote) the obvious ergonomic difference between a short code @ lsm and a long one site:long-site-naem-with-a-ttpo
- Melatonic 2y agoLove Kagi - so worth it
- ur-whale 2y agoDoesn't Google already do that with the site:blah.com keyword ?
- Leftium 2y agoI was going use `@` to extend bangs with scopes, like NPM scopes: https://www.leftium.com/bangtastic/#scopes https://www.leftium.com/bangtastic/#scopes There are multiple bang providers, often defining their own conflicting internal bang triggers. So bang scopes would let you specify which provider to use. I guess I'll have to use another character... Maybe `$` for $cope
- jtthe13 2y agoThat's nice but it becomes really useful at global OS shortcut level. Those types of shortcuts have been a mainstay of my Alfred setup for a while.
- eviks 2y agoCould you configure the @ symbol? Why are all these prefixes !@ the worst keyboard corner positions with modifiers?
- nsonha 2y agois there a web standard for this kind of things? Some sort of hyper media that points the search engine to a search endpoint inside a domain?
- pvillano 2y agoIs it worth paying for Kagi when it's future is uncertain? Are there any real competitors for paid search?
- freediver 2y agoKagi is already profitable and organically growing, so at least from a financial standpoint the future is certain.
- Terretta 2y agoIs it worth investing early in better things so they have a chance? Yes. The worst that can happen is the better thing goes away again, and your payment goes away too.
- scary-size 2y agoIf Kagi goes away, it should be relatively easy to switch to an alternative :-)