I’ve been using it for a year now and it is giving absolutely phenomenal search results right now.
For those that don’t know what it is, it’s a paid search engine - $54 per year for 300 searches a month. You get what you pay for, that’s for sure. They used to have a free tier, but I think you can still search for free a couple of times to try it out.
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I was usimg Kagi a few months ago. Then I started selfhosting a SearXNG instance. I love the customizability. I dislike how they are also getting into AI just like other big tech.
Self hosting is better than using someone else’s product. I also want to self host my email, but they say it’s a pain in the ass and hard to maintain.
300 searches/month feels tight for my use case. How do you manage? Are you using something else for search?
I’m using DDG and I’m ok with it, every one out two time a month I check Google results for some topic, and DDG seems to do well.
After using the trial for a month and reaching the limit, i decided to pay for the $108/yr unlimited searches.
Kagi did statistical analysis before assigning pricing (it was a long process that they would update us on while they gave us leniency on the quotas). They found that 300 per month was the sweet spot for a lot of regular people that might only search a few times a week or others that might only occasionally do deep dives.
edit: fixed an error, but also adding: no, i exclusively use kagi now on all my devices. give it a test run, it is dramatically different from ddg and googhell
Sorry, I’m still struggling with how you paid $54 for a search engine, and you still only got 300 searches a month. 10 a day. That’s just terrible.
Meanwhile, duck duck go is free and unlimited.
It’s only $108/yr for unlimited searches, if you actually need that many. I’m a retired software engineer and search all the time, so I just went with the unlimited plan, but most people don’t actually search more than 300 times a month.
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product”
https://alanberg.com/if-youre-not-paying-for-the-product-you-are-the-product-podcast-transcript/
edt: also, you do get what you pay for. the search results are dramatically different - it’s easy to do a test search and compare the results.
DDG is just Bing.
Bing is fine as long as you are not using it.
Indeed, similarly it is fine to ignore the downvotes in this post lol.
asklemmy isn’t news.ycombinator, afterall.
We appreciate you, ignore those downvotes lol, you’re still getting upvotes.
I am trying it out, got a subscription a couple of weeks ago. I went to unlimited searches right away since on a work day I heavily rely on search engines.
To be honest, I have nothing to say about it, which feels like a good thing considering that lately I have been complaining a lot about Google.
Awesome, that’s exactly the type of feedback from a professional that I was looking for - I feel almost exactly the same.
Other than I feel a little bit fanboy-ish now lol.
Obvious astro turfing
Wrong, retired software engineer here.
Some people use search for more than finding recipes and google has been sucking at professional search for a while now, as has been repeatedly reported at Hacker News
How do you justify paying
- For searches , cause i think it’s fundamental such as how to fix bathroom leak or even specific name of generic OTC medicine, it’s so trivial
- Consider if you do search for trivial things how don manage only with 300 searches ? When I am lookig for something’s specific it takes multiple searches within hour , what would do then ?
Well, it’s only $108/yr for unlimited searches.
And I used to use search engines professionally for work (think potentially hundereds of searches per day, sometimes), so it’s easy for me to justify paying for quality.
But according the data, most regular folk won’t search more than 300 times per month. Some days you might search more, some you might search less, you know?
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product”
https://alanberg.com/if-youre-not-paying-for-the-product-you-are-the-product-podcast-transcript/
I used Kagi for a few months but was turned off by the fact that they developed an entire production line for making tee shirts vs. spending more time on making their service better.
Their CEO also doesn’t understand personal boundaries (or privacy laws, if he truly believes everything he says in these emails): https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/kagi-ceo-s-recent-controversy/8119/2
I went back to DuckDuckGo.
heh, you should see it now - they’ve expanded the features.
i’ll take a look at the controversy, thanks.
edit: skimmed it, looks like contrived controversy to me - a rather unprofessional software reviewer that isn’t willing to engage with their subject? no thanks… but to each their own.
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