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Kagi sucks, this is a bad call. Just kidding, I love Kagi and I get a ton of value from it! I always like the saying that "the best ideas are obvious in hinds

Kagi sucks, this is a bad call. Just kidding, I love Kagi and I get a ton of value from it! I always like the saying that "the best ideas are obvious in hindsight", and that is absolutely how I feel about Kagi. Being able to uprank, downrank, and/or pinning, blacklisting domains is a killer feature, and something that would have been so easy for Google to have done at any time. Their approach to AI has also been perfect IMHO. From the beginning they didn't have the models provide answers, but (basically, as far as I can tell) RAGged the results and summarized (and included sources). I find myself using that feature all the time. Also the ! support and generally clean interface make for a great UX. I also very much appreciate their pro-rating and transparent billing, and the prices being pretty reasonable. The search results themselves are also better than Google (in no small part to my own fine-tuning of domains, i.e. downranking/upranking/blacklisting, but even just the vanilla results are better most of the time). It has been so long since I've had to !g something that I don't even remember the last time. I do routinely use !gm to open something in google maps though because Apple maps has not been a good experience for me, but I don't fault Kagi for that. If you haven't tried Kagi, you should. Also play around with the lenses feature while you're at it, cause you can find some cool stuff that way that otherwise doesn't surface in the results. Initial set up to make Kagi the default search engine is a little involved because you have to put your token in the query string, but the instructions are solid and once it's done, it's done. Very happy customer.

flkiwi 1y ago
As noted above, Kagi is the quietest but most useful subscription I have. The Kagi Assistant AI tool, with its access to pretty much any major model, is an enormous bonus.
- trenchpilgrim 1y ago
  I really like the new Assistant update which guides you on the strengths and weaknesses of the selectable models and recommends a shortlist.
ninkendo 1y ago
> It has been so long since I've had to !g something that I don't even remember the last time. I use !g once a week or so in Kagi, and 100% of the time, google’s results are worse. It’s usually something bogus I’m searching for, and there really isn’t anything to be said about it, but when I search google for it, I get a ton more junk that is totally unrelated to my query. Kagi’s results are better than google’s 100% of the time that I compare the two. It’s no exaggeration.
- null0ranje 1y ago
  This is my experience as well. Whenever I !g as search, it is usually in desperation. I can’t remember the last time I found something on Google I couldn’t on Kagi.
bot403 1y ago
Years ago Google used to have a feature of blacklisting sites from your results. Go figure, they removed it. I made the switch to kagi because there was so much ai slop and stack overflow copy sites in my Google results. Sometimes I would hit three or four cheap clone sites of the same stack overflow answer trying to get my answer. Now I'm super happy with Kagi.
- fossislife 1y ago
  There are browser extensions, like uBlacklist, that can permanently remove sites from results. I think you can import filter lists similar to how it works with uBlock Origin and import some AI websites list.
eboynyc32 1y ago
Kagi is Super impressive.
yunwal 1y ago
> downranking/upranking/blacklisting Kagi is awesome, and their default search is just way, way better than google. That being said, their upranking, downranking, and finetuning just straight up does not work. I spent like an hour pinning sites that I wanted to show up in my search results, tested extensively, and it turns out search just doesn't seem to pay attention to your pinned sites at all. It's one of the features that I was most excited about, and I'm super bummed it doesn't work. I've had an open issue since March about it on their feedback forum, and it seems like they have no plans to fix it. https://kagifeedback.org/d/6670-pinned-domains-dont-appear-at-the-top-of-results/4 https://kagifeedback.org/d/6670-pinned-domains-dont-appear-a...

flkiwi 1y ago

As noted above, Kagi is the quietest but most useful subscription I have. The Kagi Assistant AI tool, with its access to pretty much any major model, is an enormous bonus.

trenchpilgrim 1y ago
I really like the new Assistant update which guides you on the strengths and weaknesses of the selectable models and recommends a shortlist.

ninkendo 1y ago

> It has been so long since I've had to !g something that I don't even remember the last time. I use !g once a week or so in Kagi, and 100% of the time, google’s results are worse. It’s usually something bogus I’m searching for, and there really isn’t anything to be said about it, but when I search google for it, I get a ton more junk that is totally unrelated to my query. Kagi’s results are better than google’s 100% of the time that I compare the two. It’s no exaggeration.

null0ranje 1y ago
This is my experience as well. Whenever I !g as search, it is usually in desperation. I can’t remember the last time I found something on Google I couldn’t on Kagi.

bot403 1y ago

Years ago Google used to have a feature of blacklisting sites from your results. Go figure, they removed it. I made the switch to kagi because there was so much ai slop and stack overflow copy sites in my Google results. Sometimes I would hit three or four cheap clone sites of the same stack overflow answer trying to get my answer. Now I'm super happy with Kagi.

fossislife 1y ago
There are browser extensions, like uBlacklist, that can permanently remove sites from results. I think you can import filter lists similar to how it works with uBlock Origin and import some AI websites list.

eboynyc32 1y ago

Kagi is Super impressive.

yunwal 1y ago

> downranking/upranking/blacklisting Kagi is awesome, and their default search is just way, way better than google. That being said, their upranking, downranking, and finetuning just straight up does not work. I spent like an hour pinning sites that I wanted to show up in my search results, tested extensively, and it turns out search just doesn't seem to pay attention to your pinned sites at all. It's one of the features that I was most excited about, and I'm super bummed it doesn't work. I've had an open issue since March about it on their feedback forum, and it seems like they have no plans to fix it. https://kagifeedback.org/d/6670-pinned-domains-dont-appear-at-the-top-of-results/4 https://kagifeedback.org/d/6670-pinned-domains-dont-appear-a...