Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine
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Kagi is an ad-free, premium search engine for people who value their time, attention and privacy. With results optimized to serve you and not the advertisers, Kagi is lightning fast and offers advanced features for customizing your search experience.

Basically the title.

I’m interested in any opportunity to inprove the way I navigate the internet. What I’ve been for a few years now is DDG, which works fine. Not great, not amazing, just fine. And that’s ok considering how they opperate.

I just heard about kagi and was really cosidering it. Makes sense as a business model (pay so we don’t have to sell you data), seems privacy respecting, and claims to strive for best search results in the market. Some test searches from the trial seem promising.

If you’ve used it for any amount of time, what has your experience been with it? What plan are you using? What are you mostly searching for?

Even you haven’t used it, any thoughts / opinions are welcome.

  • Crazyfrog@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have not properly tested it, however I had a look at their sample queries. One of which was Steve Jobs, the main thing I noticed was that three of the top 5-10 results were the Wikipedia page for Steve jobs but in different languages. I appreciate that Google isn’t great but it’s not bad enough to serve you the same page three times. I personally use searxng.

    • Wisely@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I have not experienced anything like that. There have been a couple searches that were poor at the beginning though. You can just block or down rank the bad results and make some custom lenses that solve that problem.

      It really improves the more effort you put into customizing it. The free trial really isn’t enough time to get a feel for it.

      • Crazyfrog@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I just checked the test results again and it still has the three Wikipedia pages for Steve Jobs. It makes me question how good their results are, but I am glad it works for you :)

        • Wisely@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Check again. I submitted feedback yesterday based on what you told me. They already fixed it today. Looks like it just wasn’t checking for language without a user logged in.

          It looks like it would now in a real search before personalizations.

          They seem to be good at fixing anything or adding new features if you ask.

          • Crazyfrog@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            1 year ago

            That’s really interesting, I checked it again and the results are much better. I may properly check this out now!