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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog (blog.kagi.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Kagi is a paid alternative to ad-supported search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo. It has recently revised its pricing model, reducing the cost for a plan with unmetered searches from $25 per month to $10.

Kagi boasts the following (and more) features:

Blocking or boosting specific domains in your search results
"Lenses", which are individual setting profiles (e.g. region locks, domain whitelists) that can be applied to search queries
All of the Bangs that DuckDuckGo has (e.g. type "!yt" in front of your query to immediately search on youtube.com)
Universal Summarizer, which works with any website, PDF document, YouTube video and more

This blog post goes into full details about Kagi's capabilities.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

For one, it’s based in the USA, so it is legally subject to the insane, antidemocratic, and awful state surveillance there.

https://kagi.com/privacy at least sounds pretty good.

It is also a corporation, so it is subject to enshittification.

https://blog.kagi.com/safe-round this sound good as well.

The part that I don't get is how they can match Google in terms of search results quality when Microsoft couldn't even get close with Bing and a heck of a lot more time and money.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Easy. Kagi cares about the quality of their product giving you the customer good results. Their product is a search engine. Google doesn't care to make their search engine better currently. Their product is ad placement and sales. You are not their customer.

Kagi already exceeds Google at being a search engine, at this time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't think you will find a better search engine than Kagi. They can't even see what queries users are running, according to their own comments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That'd be weird if they couldn't, there's no way they can improve their search engine other than by watching the way users use it.

Otherwise it exists in a vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I would guess they mean that they can't see which queries belong to which users.