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Unfortunately, I will never be able to take advantage of this policy, For the very reason that I have kagi Set as my exclusive search engine on every single dev
by ajdude 2y ago
Unfortunately, I will never be able to take advantage of this policy, For the very reason that I have kagi Set as my exclusive search engine on every single device that I own, And there's no way that I could go even a Day, let alone a month, without using this fantastic service.
Keep up the good work guys!
- nmstoker 2y agoI'm in exactly the same situation as you. I would really struggle going back to not having bad sites suppressed in search results!
- user3939382 2y agoMy pitch to friends is that it’s like Google used to be before they started adding all the crap to their results and ignoring your search terms. Really, it’s even better than that given the full feature set.
- CarRamrod 2y agoNote to self: Make something good enough that friends will feel the need to make up pitches for their friends to use said thing.
- user3939382 2y agoReally. In the case of Google it’s even deeper for me. For some reason the ruination of their search engine feels like a betrayal for which Kagi’s proliferation feels like justice.
- oellegaard 2y agoI just disabled it today. I have issues searching for local stuff and the other thing - it works poorly with Safari, which is of course not their fault.
- blurrybird 2y agoHow is them not supporting Safari not their fault?
- hotpocket777 2y agoOn iOS at least, Apple does not allow custom search engines in Safari and does not list kagi. So the kagi app redirects requests to a different one. Feels gross and dumb.
- thoughtpalette 2y agoIt really isn't that bad. Setup is really quick and I have not found cause to complain on mobile.
- kstrauser 2y agoSame. It’s annoying that it’s required, but once configured it works just as I’d expect.
- evanriley 2y agoSafari has a set list of search engines, you cannot add to or remove from the list. They currently "support" safari currently by redirecting the searches that go to your chosen search engine to kagi.com with an extension.
- arrosenberg 2y agoFWIW, Kagi makes a browser called Orion that comes with ad blocking packaged in and works exceptionally well.
- jorvi 2y agoAbsolutely seconded. What I also love is Vlad / the Kagi team's fierce neutrality. For example, there have been complaints about including results from certain indexes like Brave and Yandex, or about suicide, or other political / sensitive stuff and Vlad's response is virtually always a shade of "no matter what, we will display the results because we are a search engine foremost". Oh and they have built-in CSS injection (under Settings > Appearance) which allows you to hide Reddit's crappy pre-translated search results. You could do that via Violentmonkey / Tampermonkey, but that won't apply to devices that don't have it. You can also rewrite URL results. So AMP to non-AMP and reddit.com to old.reddit.com (Advanced > Redirects). Meanwhile Google obfuscates even their divs to make blocking certain results (read: ads) more difficult. Here's the CSS snippet hiding translations: /* Hide pre-translated webpages. "sri-group" is main result, "__srgi" are sub results. You can append `:not(:has(a[href*="tl=en"]))` to allow English translations. */ :is(div.__srgi, div.sri-group._ext_r):has(a[href*="tl="]) { display: none !important; }*
- ajdude 2y agoThat's a big reason for me too; when I remember when DuckDuckGo blocked "tank Man" a couple years ago, at that point that I considered DDG compromised: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925 I get a lot out of their regex redirect for their search results, notably redirecting reddit to old.reddit -- a lifesaver when searching on mobile.
- yegg 2y agoWe never blocked this image and we would have no incentive to either since we’ve been banned in China since 2014. Here’s my statement from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27528324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27528324
- thoroughburro 2y agoYou forgot to reply in that thread with a justification for saying DDG is not, effectively, just Bing. Would you like to share numbers this time, or back down? ;)
- jagermo 2y agosame here, I need the highest tier available :)
- pietz 2y agoIt's so crazy to me to hear these super positive opinions. I gave kagi a shot for several months but the results were quite a bit worse than Google or DuckDuckGo. Maybe it's because I live in Germany and kagi doesn't do well with German content but I never understood the hype of kagi.
- vinhcognito 2y agoI honestly can't imagine Kagi being worse than Google. At minimum, Kagi lets me derank and ban domains I don't like.
- mystified5016 2y agoI haven't seen Pinterest in my search results for years and honestly that alone is worth the price of admission. If I get a bad result from an ai slop blog, I can permanently ban it. I think that Kagi aggregates this user feedback to globally downrank some sites, but I might be wrong.
- addaon 2y ago> If I get a bad result from an ai slop blog, I can permanently ban it. I think that Kagi aggregates this user feedback to globally downrank some sites, but I might be wrong. I agree this is a critical feature, but uBlacklist does this with Google for free. Without uBlacklist I'd gladly pay $10/month just to have "Google search without Pinterest results," but fortunately that's not required.
- hylaride 2y agoThis is the best feature of kagi. I still use google as a backup (there are a handful of large websites that only allow crawling from the big guys - reddit in particular), but the fact that I can ban experts-exchange, pinterest, and other horseshit is alone worth the price of admission.
- kstrauser 2y agoKagi doesn’t insert lies into the search results.[0] If that’s all it did better than Google, that alone would make it better. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42766725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42766725
- ukd1 2y agoDitto - I've been a paying user since June 22. I've basically used Google a handful of times since, and been disappointed each time. Well worth it.
- shortrounddev2 2y agoI just wish the unlimited plan was $5 instead of $10
- gjm11 2y agoI too wish that the things I might spend money on were half the price.
- shortrounddev2 2y agoI just mean that I've got a lot of subscriptions, and it would be psychologically easier to justify a $5/mo subscription over $10/mo for search.
- nicholasjarnold 2y agoSame. Kagi has been a breath of fresh air after suffering years of enshittification with other search engines whom are much more interested in your clickstream than providing you with quality results. Good job Kagi et al!
- Lammy 2y agoSame here. I don't often feel the need to shill for paid products but Kagi is so good that I want to do everything I can to make sure it sticks around. It's like air in the sense that it's easy to forget how much I need it until I suddenly don't have it lol I was sold when it helped me uncover pages I'd never read before about an extremely niche local history topic.
- idamantium 2y agoMe, too! What I love most about this fair pricing is it makes it was more appealing to encourage my friends to give it a try. Thank you, Kagi!
- shermozle 2y agoYeah was thinking just this. Looks like I do 600-900 searches a month with Kagi!
- perdomon 2y agoIf you're comfortable sharing, what is your job/role, how does Kagi help with that (or is it more of a personal tool), and do you find it more helpful than something like Google + Claude (what I currently use and love)?