Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.

Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.

  • ranandtoldthat@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I tried Kagi briefly a while ago. It’s fine. Google is much better for obscure stuff if you’re willing to use it like people did in the 00s. Refine queries based on results and repeat until you find what you want. It also has the benefit of very good results linked in the Ai summary, which people often overlook.

    Kagi might be better if you want less commercial results for broad terms, but I don’t really search that way these days, so I don’t need it for that.

    • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      4 days ago

      It’s been fine for me as well. The article’s definitely a bit tin-foily in a lot of sections, so I’d go to specific ones that you care about and look at those instead.

      I just use it as an alternative search engine that is supported through a subscription rather than ads and sponsored results. Being able to manually rank sites is also super helpful and lets me bring sites like MDN to the top while pushing w3school and etc below it.

      Anything beyond that, as far as I’m concerned, is extra. Not selling user data is a big extra though, and I’ll likely reconsider if that ever changes.