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For those of us who have moved the vast majority of our Google searches to ChatGPT / only use Google periodically for one-off questions, is there still a reason
by pookieinc 1y ago
For those of us who have moved the vast majority of our Google searches to ChatGPT / only use Google periodically for one-off questions, is there still a reason to switch to Kagi?
- evertedsphere 1y agohow do you tolerate the sheer latency of running the "vast majority" of your web searches through an llm
- esseph 1y agoHow many searches previously to find the right question to ask x search time = total_search_time # of searches is lower, total-search_time drops
- criddell 1y agoFor me ChatGPT is great when I don’t really know what I don’t know. I still end up having to do a google search after to verify that the AI result isn’t insane. So for me ChatGPT often is just adding an extra step.
- ChocolateGod 1y agoThe LLM can read through the results quicker than you can and provide the information you were looking for.
- bigstrat2003 1y agoWell, it provides something at any rate. Whether or not it's the information you were looking for is very much a matter of luck.
- senko 1y agoI use Kagi as a search engine and Perplexity and Kagi assistant as a research tool. I view those two as different use cases. I also trust @freediver more than Sam Altman :)
- ghc 1y agoWhat kind of search does Kagi excel at compared to Perplexity? I've been using Perplexity as a google replacement for about a year now, so I haven't tried Kagi, but seeing several people mention they use both has piqued my interest.
- senko 1y agoTo me, personally, it's about the use case: searching for a page on the internet (Kagi) or researching a particular question or topic (Perplexity). If I know what info I want (say, that particular blog post that mentioned topic XYZ, or the web page for a car dealership, or docs for something where the site search is worse than a web search), using Kagi is quicker and easier. Edit to add: I just noticed I always use Kagi to search YouTube instead of YTs search directly (!yt <whatever>). I do the same for Wikipedia, Yahoo Finance, GoodReads, Roger Ebert movie review site, and probably a few other sites I can't recall right now. And I also have some sites boosted and some others blocked, but I haven't been tweaking that for a long time now... If I'm interested in a topic but don't know exactly what or where, or want a longer explanation aggregated over multiple sources, then I use Perplexity. I usually fire off my question, let it work in the background, and come back a bit later. That's just my use case, I don't presume that everyone else behaves the same. Also I just recently got access to Kagi's assistant on my plan, which may cannibalize my Perplexity use (we'll see).
- ghc 1y agoThanks for taking the time to explain; what you say makes a lot of sense. I'm definitely going to give Kagi a try.
- bigstrat2003 1y agoIf you believe ChatGPT is good for such usage, no. But personally I think it sucks at that and have no idea how anyone can stand it.
- carlosjobim 1y agoJust try it, it's free to try.