I’ve been curious about kagi for a while, as I see the topic come up now and then.
Could you describe how it is better (except from the obvious privacy aspect) in your particular use case?
Which plan do you subscribe to?
What is the AI assistant it refers to, and do you use it?
Does it filter out standard slop that has been plaguing (my) search results lately, such as “How to fix (some specific problem with technology ABC): Long description of what technology ABC is, followed by some boilerplate bullet points such as updating drivers and run windows update.”
I’ve found the results more than good enough - excellent even with all the slop removed.
I use search so much, everyday, I feel like the clean results pay for themselves in time saved in just one day but I was frustrated and annoyed with both slop and the increasing insidious practices of the big search ad-engines.
Kagi is a great search engine that I’ve found to be worth paying for.
I didn’t want this to be true, but I’m a happy paying customer as of a few weeks ago.
I’ve been curious about kagi for a while, as I see the topic come up now and then.
Could you describe how it is better (except from the obvious privacy aspect) in your particular use case?
Which plan do you subscribe to?
What is the AI assistant it refers to, and do you use it?
Does it filter out standard slop that has been plaguing (my) search results lately, such as “How to fix (some specific problem with technology ABC): Long description of what technology ABC is, followed by some boilerplate bullet points such as updating drivers and run windows update.”
@thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca: Same question to you.
First and foremost it was the slop filtering that sold me on it.
I had a friend suggesting I try it for a while and I resisted. Longtime duck duck go user for primary search.
I tried it using their free trial/free tier for a little while. I liked what I saw so I went month to month on what I think is their pro plan.
I do not use their ai assistant at all, I went in a disabled that some can’t be of help there.
I use their privacy pass now in all my desktop environments: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass
I’ve found the results more than good enough - excellent even with all the slop removed.
I use search so much, everyday, I feel like the clean results pay for themselves in time saved in just one day but I was frustrated and annoyed with both slop and the increasing insidious practices of the big
searchad-engines.Hope that helps.