1) the weather widget doesn't show precipitation chances in the future, only for today
2) historical queries like "newspaper articles on interest rates from 1/1/2008" are subpar compared to Google. Probably related to the recency of their index.
3) hyperlocal queries that rely on contextual information like location need to have that info explicitly stated, otherwise "best restaurants" returns a list of restaurants in Poland for example. Sort of inherent to the privacy thing though.
Everything else, all the normal queries work as well or better for me than Google.
I would still recommend it to anyone, it’s heaps better than anything else.
It's pretty much the only thing I still use Google for.
That sounds really interesting, have to check those out! I've only used that feature minimally so far.
What happened to Duck Duck Go?
Its still there and still my goto search engine when I'm not on one of my personal devices.
I just prefer Kagi now because I pay for it so I'm their customer not their product. I also like the configuration options Kagi offers.
But think -- really think -- about how much value you get out of search. Like, if you didn't have search, would you even be able to use the web? I think $10/mo for something I critically rely on several tens of times a day is a bargain!
Certainly it might be hard to sell search at $10/mo when people can get by at $0/mo. But that isn't the same thing as saying it's steep.
And they want $10/month for unlimited searches full well and knowing $5/300 isn't even a reasonable bracket for half of us.
It's steep, and we're all swimming in in these costs.
$5/unlimited would be more reasonable, but it still piles on all these SaaS costs that everyone now uses. Gotta grow grow grow grow you know. Capitalism is great!
It was fairly common to use the web before people used Google, or even Altavista.
No matter where you live on earth, if you're a software engineer $10/month is nothing. I seriously don't think you would notice if someone was quietly stealing $10 a month from you.
And yet that $10 a month would pay for a product that nearly all of us in this community wish existed.
But the biggest irony for me, is that all software engineers get paid what they do because someone on the other side of their business is willing to pay a lot more for what ever service you're ultimately helping to build. If everyone was this cheap about software, software engineers would be making minimum wage.
https://kagi.com/settings?p=billing_plan&plan=individual&per...
If you're a student / postgrad somewhere in the US, it still likely feels worth the price, even though $10 is already not below the threshold of observability.
If you are, say, somewhere in Thailand, or Uzbekistan, or Botswana, the $10/mo become unironically noticeable: not prohibitive, but you really want to get a lot of value in exchange.
And basically anywhere in the world, if you're a kid, and mom and dad would not buy Kagi for you, you're out of luck.
Any reason it can’t just be added as a search engine?
And I like the way SearXNG is self-hosted. You can configure and prioritise a lot. And it can even search torrent sites etc.
I used to think Kagi had their own index but as far as I've heard most of it is actually meta results from other engines, just re-ordered.
The only thing I miss is an integration with ChatGPT, that would be amazing.
Where did you find hosting for SearXNG that costs less than $10/month? I have my own server and I can barely get a public reverse proxy to bypass CGNAT for that price. Also, SearXNG isn't very easy to add custom "always block these domains" lists last I looked.
Also, they do have integration with multiple LLMs - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral and their own
However, it seems like it isn't added to the select menu yet, but it can be accessed by changing sub_mode to 8 in the url query.
But now that I'm using Kagi with super fast unlimited searches I almost never feel the need to ask one of these AI things anymore.
One important thing people rarely mention is that it is so fast. It's so much faster than Google to show results, makes it for a much smoother searching flow.
