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They still get away with it as ‘only’ 1% complain and Google thinks they don’t matter. We built our entire company for that 1%.
by freediver 1y ago
They still get away with it as ‘only’ 1% complain and Google thinks they don’t matter.
We built our entire company for that 1%.
- frakt0x90 1y agoAnd we are very grateful
- adammenges 1y agoKagi is so good
- paradox460 1y agoHey freediver, I bought a kagi shirt in the initial batch, got it, and then after one wash it unraveled. Your support team was great and gave me a coupon for a replacement shirt, which I ordered, yet it never shipped. Could I get that shirt :D
- riskable 1y agoWe're finally going to find out if he gives a shirt!
- stinkbeetle 1y agoToday is the day you find out whether you're the 1% of the 1%!
- freediver 1y agoI give a shirt! Contact support@kagi.com until you get it.
- Mistletoe 1y agoHow will you fight the inevitable slide that happens if you ever got on top? I’m convinced Google started with the absolute best of intentions before the money and greed turned them into a horror movie villain.
- junipertea 1y agoMaybe another company will take over at time. Why does one company have to stay perfect and on top of game for eternity?
- ocdtrekkie 1y agoI love many of the companies I use and work with... but I'm always on the lookout for a backup plan if one gets greedy. Companies are not loyal to their consumers, we should never make the mistake of providing loyalty to corporations. Kagi is great though, for now! :D
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- chairmansteve 1y ago"How will you fight the inevitable slide that happens if you ever got on top?". Don't get too greedy. There must be examples... 37Signals?
- d4mi3n 1y ago"Don't get greedy" and similar variations assumes intent rather than what I see as the reality of how companies operate within the US--not a failing of individual virtues. If you're a public company, your shareholders will want stock prices to go up and are more than happy to use their shares to vote for whoever is willing to make that happen. This is, of course, an exaggeration. Not all shareholders value profits above all else, but many big ones do. Ignoring what incentives (and disincentives) are put on a business drive it's behavior. If you want something contrary to those incentives, you need to change those pressures or you're doomed to be disappointed.
- extraduder_ire 1y agoIs there a minimum percentage of voting stock you have to issue in US law? IIRC, google is split in half into voting and non-voting shares with a clause in their incorporation to buy back shares to keep their prices roughly equal.
- ares623 1y agoHow is Kagi for non-US folks? I've tried switching to DDG a while back but the experience for me, living outside the US, was not great. Sure, programming related searches were pretty good, but everything else was not. Does Kagi have a better localized experience?
- justinclift 1y agoSeems fine here in Australia, though I tend to use global results.
- DimmieMan 1y agoWorks fine in AU settings too. It's not as good as google at knowing where you are (gee I wonder why) but if I search Bahn Mi <my town> the results as good as google. Results for something niche like "Keycaps" are showing lots of local results too (or as local as you can get living outside a capital city in Australia).
- decimalenough 1y agoAs a non-US-ian, yes, it does, for search. There's also a handy country dropdown if you ever want to localize to somewhere else, although I rarely need this, since it's smart enough to eg. show "tokyo hotels" even if your country is somewhere else. You'll still need Google Maps though.
- hatthew 1y agoJust curious, are you wondering about location-specific results ("best restaurants"), country-specific results ("how to do my taxes"), or language-specific results ("pasos de división larga")?
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- leakycap 1y agoCurious for context on your last comment, I clicked your username: user created 10 minutes ago • karma: -1 Is this your 12th account, Mr. Green?
- dpe82 1y agoAnd we thank you for it! I've been a paying customer for about a year now and I can't remember the last time I purposefully used Google search.
- inetknght 1y agoKudos for Kagi. I stopped using Google and gladly pay Kagi for search to not show advertisements or junk. If Kagi ever starts showing ads to me, a paying customer, I'll ditch it too. If I get the feeling that Kagi is selling my search history, I'll ditch it too. Keep being awesome, Kagi CEO
- misswaterfairy 1y agoThis. Kagi is absolutely awesome. I pay for Kagi so that I'm not being peddled ads or junk when I'm trying to be productive, as my ADHD-riddled brain can get easily distracted. It gets quite upsetting when I've wasted non-trivial amounts of time on those distractions that I subconsciously fall into. I absolutely cannot use Google because of their seemingly endless attempts to distract me from what I'm searching for. The final nail in the coffin was their actions to get rid of uBlock and other effective ad-blockers. It's a serious anti-pattern, and (I strongly argue) is effectively discrimination for those who struggle with ADHD. I hope that Kagi can one day effectively filter out GenAI slop websites that look like legitimate content, but I can understand the significant technical challenges in such a feature.
- dankwizard 1y agoYeah but you're now filling up Hackernews threads with advertising, so.... same evil?
- array_key_first 1y agoAnd, relatedly, only 1% complain because they make complaining hard. This is why analytics driven decision making can backfire!