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Kagi Inc. is a company created with the mission to humanize the web. Our goal is to amplify the web of human knowledge, creativity, and self-expression.

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Better image search with AI-generated images detection

Last week we got quite clear and direct feedback that we need to do something about AI-generated images that started creeping up in the image search.

You asked for it and we delivered!

We are enhancing our image search with a new ranking algorithm and an AI image filter. These updates prioritise authentic, human-created images and downrank AI-generated content. Users can also opt to exclude AI-generated images entirely.

Learn more about Kagi's AI image filter here: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/exclude-ai-images.html

We will continue actively improving this feature based on your feedback.

Improvements and bug fixes

The Assistant

  • We've enhanced the Assistant mobile experience with several updates, including improvements to the thread view and header navigation
  • Kagi Assistant v2 mobile threads menu #4725 @frin
  • Kagi assistant gpt LLM not working #5055 @ash
  • Assistant Tooltips are Hard to Click #5037 @silvenga

Celebrating Our Community

At Kagi, we’re all about community, and nothing has made us prouder than seeing the incredible photos our members are sharing online of their Kagi swag! Whether you’ve posted a picture of your free t-shirt or a sticker proudly displayed on your laptop, we want to take a moment to say thank you. Your support means the world to us.

The story:

We were thrilled to celebrate our first big milestone: reaching 20,000 loyal members who’ve stuck with us through this adventure. To show our appreciation, we've sent out free t-shirts and sticker packs to those first 20,000 supporters. Earlier this month, these members started receiving their packages and excitedly shared photos across various socials. Here’s a snapshot of just a few:

For anyone who missed out, don’t worry! You can head over to the Kagi Store and snag your first-edition Doggo t-shirt. We’ve got four fantastic designs, each one representing our determination to build a better, more ethical and more human web.

Help us reach our next milestone: 50,000 members

As we gear up to reach 50,000 members, we’d love your help in spreading the word!

We don't rely on ads to drive our growth; instead, we depend entirely on word-of-mouth marketing and community recommendations. This grassroots approach means that every conversation you have about Kagi, every post you share showcasing your swag, and every mention you make to friends and family has a real impact. Your enthusiasm helps us reach new members who share our vision for a better web. Let’s make our next milestone one to remember.

Where to find and tag us on the social web:

We also have a Kagi Community Discord server where you can join our community for real-time discussion about the product and chat with other Kagi users.

As we move forward, we want to reiterate our commitment to continuously improving Kagi for all our members. Your feedback and engagement are invaluable as we strive to create an even better experience. Thank you for being a vital part of our journey - your support inspires us every day, and we can’t wait to see where this adventure takes us next!

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I love summarize page. I can even get a summary from paywalled websites. Sometimes i just need the gist of the article anyway.

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code for kagi t-shirt (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Since I don't want the code for myself, here it is for a free Kagi t-shirt store.kagi.com Code: 1204fa59-5437-43e7-be11-56925054cda5 (afaik shipping costs still apply)

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Kagi AI Summary:
The document discusses the recent court ruling that Google's search business is a monopoly. It explains Google's search architecture, including the search index, search engine, and advertising business, and how this has created a powerful self-reinforcing cycle. While Google has innovated and provided valuable services, the document argues the ad-based model has led to misaligned incentives and harm to users through biased and low-quality search results. To address this, the document proposes treating Google's search index as an essential facility, allowing fair access and enabling more diverse search experiences and business models. This could foster innovation, competition, and better outcomes for consumers without attacking Google's core business.

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I'm thinking on buying into Kagi, but I still find the cost of service too high for my liking. Can we expect Kagi doing Black Friday deals?

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Features

GPT-4o integrated in Kagi Assistant

We've benchmarked OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-4o, released yesterday, and its performance on our internal independent tests (PyLLMs and reasoning on Chess puzzles) is impressive. As a result, GPT-4o has now been used across various features in Assistant:

Note: Kagi Assistant is available as open beta for Ultimate plan members

Recipe extraction/summarizer

Kagi Universal Summarizer now automatically identifies when you are summarizing a recipe and conveniently displays both the ingredients and the cooking steps #3937 @leopoldarrestrom

You can use Kagi Summarizer as a standalone Web app, through Kagi Search Extension in your browser or directly in search results.

Additional notes for Family / Team account members

When setting up a Family or Team account, you now have the ability to add names for each member. This feature is particularly useful for managing team members who use email aliases #2695 @Alligator

Improvements and bug fixes

  • Wikipedia card links do not work with smaller browser windows #3469 @yeri
  • Time in Portugal throws a NaN error #3986 @bleveck
  • Wikipedia widget does not appear, even though there are relevant Wikipedia articles as search results. #394 @iiv
  • Sorry, I couldn't summarize these results. #3992 @sjdonadoo
  • Summarizer layout issue for “Dutch” language #3572 @Nyaa
  • Clickable Phone Number Results #3884 @kaidea
  • New assistant icon is off-centred #3994 @sefidel
  • Assistant messages can go off the screen #4026 @Zambyte
  • Research expert AI does not convert sub HTML tags for chemical formulas #3934 @frin
  • Wikipedia HTML included in research assistant response #3907 @youngji22
  • Research assistant returns "We are sorry, this input is not supported. (Invalid Input)" on normal queries #3990 @httpjames
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Features and announcements

QR code sign-in

Now you can simply scan a QR code on Kagi's login page with an authenticated device to log into a new device. For more details, visit our help page#2417 @FrederickZh

Sales tax rollout

Starting this Sunday, April 21st, sales taxes will apply to all subscriptions. We have notified subscribers of this change via email. This marks the completion of the sales tax rollout. For further details, please visit our FAQ page.

Improvements and bug fixes

  • Add keyboard shortcuts shift-J/K to skip to next domain's results #2465 @Deebster
  • [Apperance][New UI] Plans do not show their differences anymore #3796 @igak_rekcartgub
  • Lens settings has a incorrect input label or maybe an incorrect input field? Not sure... #3845 @gunslingerfry
  • Provide feedback for copying code snippets #3787 @adamaveray
  • Selecting text in Wolfram info pane in suggestions dropdown dismisses dropdown #3779 @bert
  • Input query field has hidden clear button #3687 @mikeX
  • The dog doesn't look away anymore #3767 @httpjames
  • New Kagi design creates issues with Login page #3810 @hmnd
  • 'System Default' theme always uses light theme's theme colour #3155 @sefidel
  • Kagi’s Landing and Sign-in Pages Should Also Support Adaptive Light/Dark Mode #3782 @teethtaster
  • New Kagi design creates issues with Login page #3810 @hmnd
  • Royal Blue colours and links very broken #3798 @CarwynNelson
  • Uncentered texts on Orion plan page #3835 @sw
  • Dark Royal Blue - switch plan info unreadable #3833 @frin
  • Yellow border gets cut off on the trailing end #3823 @marsbars
  • Unreadable dark text on Orion plan page #3836 @sw
  • Royal Blue Link Colors Indistinguishable #3777 @beepboop
  • Tabbing breaks when suggested search box appears #3780 @Prostagma
  • The Redisign Broke Safari’s Auto-Hiding Tab Bar #3776 @teethtaster
  • Dark theme bug: invisible text in Firefox #3792 @Ilya
  • FastGPT API returns 500 Server Error #3766 @GermanMuzquiz
  • Chat follow-up input blinker is cut off #3786 @frin
  • Kagi Homepage Overlay #3774 @lemonmaker
  • There is no longer any difference between the two light modes. #3789 @MoroccanPigeon
  • Unable to activate inactive lenses #3781 @rockymcrockerson
  • Support for research assistant math results with latex #2925 @Mg432
  • Apostrophe breaks assistant (LaTeX) formatting #3709 @aivalja
  • Research fast keeps returning SEARCH REQUIRED #3733 @frin
  • Missing label for ai chat assistants #3762 @JamesT
  • Mobile AI search box overlapped by tabs #3800 @LKD70
  • Assistant code illegible using "Moon Dark" theme #3765 @zsig
  • Research assistant gives error after 3 messages if pdf is uploaded (this input is not supported. (Invalid Input)) #3818 @aivalja
  • Sort footnotes that appear below a "Quick Answer" into numerical order #3794 @macalba
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New Features and Updates

Refreshed UI design

We're delighted to unveil our updated design of key search pages and a completely revamped settings experience, now featuring a fresh, new look! Here's a sneak peek:

Homepage

Settings

Onboarding

Assistant highlights

  • New model available: added Google's latest LLM, Gemini 1.5 Pro
  • Privacy scores: we introduced an LLM privacy score (details on how it's calculated)
  • Enhanced citations: they now reference the segment of text used to generate the cited content

Sales tax rollout

An update on our sales tax rollout plan. Effective today, sales tax will apply to all new customer accounts. For our existing customers, the implementation date is now set for April 16th. We will provide further details via email soon. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact our team via email at [email protected] or Discord.

Improvements and bug fixes

  • Improved discussions lens results #3424 @raphael
  • Some requests seem to take too much time to load #3752 @ak42
  • Github repos from different orgs should not fold as subresults #149 @xvello
  • Search suggestion details break input field #3727 @b-kaiser
  • The search term variable, %s, is only evaluated once per bang #3698 @ph
  • Small Web Lens does not honor blocked sites #3725 @markkrueg
  • Kagi Knowledge wraps in middle of words #3702 @yeri
  • Claude 3 Opus failing with "Sorry, a problem occurred while processing your request. Please try again later." #3721 @ak42
  • URL highlighting in assistant #3716 @cardinal086
  • API/FastGPT keep failing on one particular query #3713 @frin
  • Summarizer fails with a YouTube link #3704 @frin
  • Research AI provides sources not in native language #3658 @bebowilson
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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Is anyone else having issues lately? I had to reinstall Firefox mobile recently and I can't get kagi working.

Edit: it was user error.

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April 2nd, 2024 #

Improvements and bug fixes

  • Allow previous 2FA code to work along with current 30sec one #3540 @frin
  • Custom bangs accessible from Search Settings tab #3616 @mhitza
  • Asking !chat to modify a <script>...</script> tag causes the script tag in the response to be not escaped/not visible #3694 @heavyg
  • We've resolved capacity issues with our recent models upgrade
  • Bottom of image search results is cluttered with low quality Second Life screenshots #3632 @yellow
  • Show summary of question in fastgpt in tab title #3203 @fictorial
  • Image Description Completely Wrong #3600 @CrunchyFritos
  • Assistant Expert "<SEARCH REQUIRED" and then switches to spanish #3661 @tschoesi
  • Mistral "Sorry, a problem occurred while processing your request. Please try again later." #3684 @abb128
  • Custom assistant ignoring custom instructions #3685 @Wanja
  • Latext support in quick answer #3455 @Grooty
  • AI Model selection should be sticky #3503 @JamesT
  • Assistant code overflows #3428 @cardinal086
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Features

  • We continue enhancing our search experience with bangs. Check the shield menu to see if a website has a corresponding bang. #3410 @frereit

  • We've upgraded the FastGPT, and Research Assistant (Fast+Expert) with the latest models to enhance performance:

    • FastGPT -> Claude 3 Haiku
    • Research Assistant, Fast -> Claude 3 Haiku
    • Research Assistant, Expert -> Claude 3 Sonnet
  • These are also available in Chat mode which allows full access to a range of models like Claude 3 Opus, GPT-4 and Mistral Large [Please note, Kagi Assistant is currently in closed beta and is exclusively accessible to subscribers of the Ultimate plan]

  • We now allow the community to see and translate the trigger phrases for widgets that utilize them, such as the weather and calculator widgets. Learn more about how to contribute translations in our help page. #2506 @cempack

Improvements and bug fixes

  • Show colour picker when searching for "colour picker" or "color picker" #3370 @httpjames
  • Clock Widget (ie, checking time in another time zone) initially shows PM instead of AM #3533 @mackid1993
  • Ultimate-exclusive bangs not working on starter plan #3551 @emarforio
  • Timer doesn't count time correctly #3436 @__rej__
  • The enter key ignores the character selection state when using Chinese IME #3606 @morningdip
  • Unable to upload items between 8mb and 16mb #3593 @cakeboss
  • Search results have no title Firefox Android #3586 @ray
  • Discussion cards #3519 @Dumb
  • News Snippet cuts off menu #3542 @xrendan
  • Show that a bang is available in the info field of a result #3410 @frereit
  • Search ignoring pre-set date filter #3417 @travior
  • Check Listen Notes API integration #3163 @matteoscopel
  • Quick answer does not display footnotes correctly #3637 @bebowilson
  • Add bang country for Indonesia #3515 @rourguic
  • Make stats subpages shareable #3452 @Value7609
  • Updating a lens' bang causes the server to crash with 502 Server Error #3601 @httpjames
  • Assistant is still capping characters to 7k #3547 @httpjames
  • AI Assistant regenerates answer on tab restore/reopen when called from bang #3569 @emarforio
  • Quick answer button slightly misaligned on mobile #3429 @sefidel
  • Stop overriding the browser’s scroll bars with custom CSS #3420 @David
  • Using the bang !fast on Firefox iOS just gives me an emtpy window #3597 @lou
  • Reddit and Hackernews backlinks only (?) work on us-central #3277 @nilsherzig
  • Bangs in Image / Video / News / Podcast / Maps Search do not redirect. #2929 @Syx
  • Lenses are not activated for research #3317 @tkataja
  • Quick answer breaks when the query contains html tags #3614 @ys256
  • Research Expert Mode "forgets" Citations #3612 @tschoesi
  • Research Assistant cannot summarize GitHub issues URLs correctly (but it can as a PDF) #3581 @yokoffing
  • Missing citations in fastgpt / quickanswer again #3625 @truethomas
  • Quick answer words end with numbers (without links to sources) #3628 @bert
  • Blocked sites showing up in "Quick Peek" results #3477 @n6h6
  • "Sorry, a problem occurred while processing your request." when using the bang "!expert" #3306 @lou
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Announcements

Starting from March 26th, we will begin including localized sales tax for all new customers who subscribe on or after this date.

Starting from April 9th, all existing customers who qualify for sales tax/VAT will see localized sales tax/VAT added to their monthly invoice in USD, on top of their current subscription fee. This adjustment will appear on your next invoice on or after April 9th, with no immediate extra charge.

If you are paying with an alternative method via Paypal, OpenNode, or any other non-Stripe provider: You will be prompted to pick a sales tax region the next time you go to purchase credit.

If you have any questions about this change, please feel free to contact our team through Discord or at [email protected]. We will be building an F.A.Q. page to answer any questions about the migration process.

To clarify, it means an end-price increase for affected members (sales tax/VAT will be automatically added on top of Kagi price, if applicable in your country/state) and this is mandated by Kagi becoming large enough to have legal sales tax/VAT obligation. In addition, Kagi will have to retroactively pay for all sales tax/VAT that we did not collect in the last almost two years. We have chosen to absorb this on behalf of our customers.

Improvements and bug fixes

  • We made some changes to Kagi-specific bangs: you can access FastGPT through !fgpt and Discuss doc with !discussdoc
  • LaTeX is not displaying properly #3514 @rourguic
  • Claude 3 Opus injects random mathematical formulae #3564 @tiltowait
  • Expert research assistant fails to process request #3566 @frin
  • Research assistant messes up character spacing unpredictably #3184 @httpjames
  • Duplicate bang search suggestion #3379 @Value7609
  • Kagi Quick Answer Mismatch Between Document Number and Source Number #3549 @benoit
  • UI Bug: Chat Assistant models card has a clipboard icon #3485 @Chris
  • Maps keeps trying to get a location on every keystroke #3405 @tinkling6961
  • POST /login returns HTTP 500 Internal Server Error #3526 @pdm
  • Non-ASCII Wikipedia URL incorrectly encoded #3459 @ThreePointsShort
  • Kagi Assistant - Text Parsing Issue #3390 @martafolf
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Has anyone had luck using a search widget on their home screen that connects to kagi? A home screen search bar is the fastest way, and one of the most frequent ways the to connect, but i haven't found any android search widget that works.

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Features

  • We've upgraded the Quick Answer keyboard shortcut. Pressing q triggers Quick Answer after search results are shown, but also allows you to control the level of detail displayed, letting you expand or condense the information to suit your needs #3493 @yellow
  • Orion browser lifetime purchase w/ credits on balance is now possible
  • Added Thai language option #3439 @bocchi

We currently have almost 20 languages localized. Our translation effort is crowd-sourced, and If you would like to contribute translations to Kagi, click here.

Assistant

  • We increased the input character limits for Assistant to 16k characters #3421 @mackid1993
  • We have doubled the file upload limit for Assistant to 16 MB #2705 @Grooty

Maps

  • Added support for multiple routing options in navigation (user can choose between up to 3 different routing options when navigating to a location)
  • Improved user experience and interface (UX/UI) behaviour when searches fail due to issues like lost Wi-Fi connection
  • Enhanced UX/UI behaviour for searches that hang or take too long to complete
  • Fixed the issue of missing quick-find results on the mobile dropdown menu
  • Refresh the style and design of navigation route map lines and markers for driving and walking directions to improve their visibility and clarity

Improvements and Bug Fixes

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Announcements

We are launching instant Summary Boxes, together with announcing partnership with Wolfram|Alpha and welcoming Stephen Wolfram to Kagi's board of advisors.

Read everything in our blog post.

note: You may need to enable Summary Boxes in Settings -> Search.

Features

  • "Small YouTube" (part of Kagi Small Web) feed has been enhanced with more content, check it out
    (+ RSS feed is available)

  • We've added Orion+ member count to our stats page.

  • You can now summarise videos directly from the results page via three dots menu. You can even ask questions about it (as with any other result appearing in Kagi search). #3269 @Browsing6853

  • We've added keyboard shortcut for activating Quick Answer. Just press q on your keyboard after the results are loaded to get a quick summary of results. #3161 @Browsing6853

  • We added access to Mistral Large and Claude 3 Opus to Assistant (please note, the Assistant remains in beta and limited to Ultimate subscribers)

Improvements & Bug fixes

  • Simplified the onboarding process for Duo & Family accounts via universal invitation links
  • Apple Sign In, then Set Password, Breaks Apple Sign In #3330 @hanji
  • Handling for Desktop/Mobile Website Versions in Search Results #1727 @Wisely
  • Wrong results from currency converter #3366 @ioctl
  • Search option bar can be vertically scrolled after reloading if the bar contains Quick Answer button #3328 @sefidel
  • When you navigate back, the search query in the More Results button doesn't match the results. #3209 @xorgy
  • Cannot click enter in search box android #3315 @KaraZajac
  • Wolfram Alpha math result does not meet expectation #3189 @brotis
  • Assistant doesn't remember last selected model in some situations #3223 @sefidel
  • Further improvements to fix $_latex_inline in quick answer #3225 @bert
  • The response None is returned by FastGPT #3343 @AndreL
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Feb 27, 2024 - Bangs upgrades, user control enhancements, and colour code widget #

Features

  • We've made further progress in enhancing Bangs in the UI. And following the release of our open-source bags repository, the community has contributed by adding and fixing dozens of bangs already! Additionally, we upgraded all bangs to use HTTPS where possible.

  • To further enhance user control, we now indicate when there are blocked results for your search queries #2698 @Fernandez)

  • We've introduced a new colour code search widget. It displays the selected colour, allows to pick an alternative, and to convert between HSL and RGB formats #118 @yokoffing)

Kagi for Safari 2.2.2

  • If you were having issues with Kagi for Safari, make sure you are running the latest version and that 'Engine to redirect' option in extension settings is set to the one used by Safari.
  • [Changed] Adopted monochrome icon for toolbar/menu to match Safari icon styles

Improvements and bug fixes

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Announcements

  • Kagi Bangs repository is now open source (thanks @Browsing6853 for suggesting this in #481). You can now refine the accuracy of existing bangs or introduce new ones for everyone to enjoy on Kagi Search. Your contributions will enhance the search experience for users worldwide.

  • Fresh from Kagi Labs: We're shipping an alpha version of Kagi Sidekick, a search and "chat with content" solution for websites.

    Kagi Sidekick will offer instant site search results, and on-demand AI generated summaries, by tapping directly into the website's content. As a bonus, the website content will automatically (after opt-in) surface as a part of Kagi search index.

    You can see Sidekick live in action in Kagi's documentation.

    We'd love to hear your feedback, and how would you use it on your website. We will plan the launch based on incoming demand.

    Visit the Sidekick project landing page to learn more and register your interest for a beta invite. If you'd like to participate in building projects like this, Kagi Labs is hiring part-time contributors.

Improvements & Bug fixes

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12140329

I've been using this search engine and I have to say I'm absolutely in love with it.

Search results are great, Google level even. Can't tell you how happy I am after trying multiple privacy oriented engines and always feeling underwhelmed with them.

Have you tried it? What are your thoughts on it?

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They're obviously related to Kagi and I've been posting the last few but I'm not 100% sure they belong here because every Kagi user already gets that little bell in the top right when a new one is out.

OTOH, some of the changes are worthy of discussion.

What do you think?

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