I’ve been using it for a year now and it is giving absolutely phenomenal search results right now.
For those that don’t know what it is, it’s a paid search engine - $54 per year for 300 searches a month (or $108 for unlimited).
You get what you pay for, I think. They used to have a free tier, but I think you can still search for free a couple of times to try it out.
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300 searches/month feels tight for my use case. How do you manage? Are you using something else for search?
I’m using DDG and I’m ok with it, every one out two time a month I check Google results for some topic, and DDG seems to do well.
After using the trial for a month and reaching the limit, i decided to pay for the $108/yr unlimited searches.
Kagi did statistical analysis before assigning pricing (it was a long process that they would update us on while they gave us leniency on the quotas). They found that 300 per month was the sweet spot for a lot of regular people that might only search a few times a week or others that might only occasionally do deep dives.
edit: fixed an error, but also adding: no, i exclusively use kagi now on all my devices. give it a test run, it is dramatically different from ddg and googhell
I used Kagi for a few months but was turned off by the fact that they developed an entire production line for making tee shirts vs. spending more time on making their service better.
Their CEO also doesn’t understand personal boundaries (or privacy laws, if he truly believes everything he says in these emails): https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/kagi-ceo-s-recent-controversy/8119/2
I went back to DuckDuckGo.
heh, you should see it now - they’ve expanded the features.
i’ll take a look at the controversy, thanks.
edit: skimmed it, looks like contrived controversy to me - a rather unprofessional software reviewer that isn’t willing to engage with their subject? no thanks… but to each their own.
I am trying it out, got a subscription a couple of weeks ago. I went to unlimited searches right away since on a work day I heavily rely on search engines.
To be honest, I have nothing to say about it, which feels like a good thing considering that lately I have been complaining a lot about Google.
Awesome, that’s exactly the type of feedback from a professional that I was looking for - I feel almost exactly the same.
Other than I feel a little bit fanboy-ish now lol.
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