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.

  • Slotos@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m weirded out by their “why need an account” explanation when Mullvad has a perfectly viable solution that doesn’t require one. “We don’t link your queries to you” is a vastly different claim from a “we can’t link your queries to you” one. Still, considering who we compare them to…

    On a personal note, Google search is so infuriatingly shitty lately that I’d been thinking about switching to another service. This does look to be worth a try.

    • Gogo Sempai@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah +1 on Google Search becoming shit lately. I shifted to DDG for a while but settled on Brave Search for now. Their new AI summarizer is quite good and I like how they club Discussion posts together.

      • Wisely@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Google’s results are often unusable now for anyone boycotting Reddit.

        For years I was annoyed by all the Google ads and junk websites that were just there for ads, behind paywalls, ai generated or trying to get me to buy something.

        To find anything of use I would often type in Reddit. Now they have nothing with their best results becoming more junk not to click on. Staying with Google makes it incredibly difficult to quit Reddit.

      • rog@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        DDG was great a few years ago and has steadily become shitter and shitter with time. Its still my default but I find myself banging to others more and more.

    • DataDreadnought@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Well Mullvad can only offer that because they require you to be on their VPN. How would Kagi enforce their payment plan without an account?

      • Slotos@feddit.nlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Mullvad can offer that because they generate you a one time access token that’s good until a certain time for a set number of simultaneous clients.

        Kagi could do a simpler version - an access token that’s good until a certain number of searches. In fact, they have that mostly built - the link they tell you to use in private sessions is literally it.

        Add to that anonymized payment options, and you got yourself a hard to track design.