Liking it a lot (I’ve been using for over 2 years now, 3?) but it’s expensive for what it offers.
Like mentioned in another comment for me discovering Kagi felt like when I first started using Google back in the 90s. It was so much better than whatever else was available, but not flawless. I wish for Kagi to not go the same shitty road as the Google search engine did (each time I see people using it I just can’t believe the useless crap it has turned into).
There is a trial offer (there was, back then at least) but I switched to their paid membership only 3 days after I started using it because there was no reason for me to wait longer: I was already very seduced by their zero ads, zero CEO crap, their great search results and then, to me that was the Oh, effing yeah! deciding factor, I noticed they let the user easily lower the ranking and/or completely exclude any domain from the search results. That plus, their ‘Small Web’ feature focusing the results on anything but the big websites (a great way to try to rekindle what the Web used to be before its corporate takeover). There is also their promise of not spying on us which I appreciate a lot, but it’s still an US company, submitted to US privacy-less laws. And then they offer a few other neat features (I don’t use their AI, I don’t want to use any AI for as long as it’s possible)
I still use the French Qwant next to Kagi, but Kagi is leagues ahead.
To me, filtering out some domains from the results is a blessing, exactly like the ability to mute some content/user on Lemmy ;)
Liking it a lot (I’ve been using for over 2 years now, 3?) but it’s expensive for what it offers.
Like mentioned in another comment for me discovering Kagi felt like when I first started using Google back in the 90s. It was so much better than whatever else was available, but not flawless. I wish for Kagi to not go the same shitty road as the Google search engine did (each time I see people using it I just can’t believe the useless crap it has turned into).
There is a trial offer (there was, back then at least) but I switched to their paid membership only 3 days after I started using it because there was no reason for me to wait longer: I was already very seduced by their zero ads, zero CEO crap, their great search results and then, to me that was the Oh, effing yeah! deciding factor, I noticed they let the user easily lower the ranking and/or completely exclude any domain from the search results. That plus, their ‘Small Web’ feature focusing the results on anything but the big websites (a great way to try to rekindle what the Web used to be before its corporate takeover). There is also their promise of not spying on us which I appreciate a lot, but it’s still an US company, submitted to US privacy-less laws. And then they offer a few other neat features (I don’t use their AI, I don’t want to use any AI for as long as it’s possible)
I still use the French Qwant next to Kagi, but Kagi is leagues ahead.
To me, filtering out some domains from the results is a blessing, exactly like the ability to mute some content/user on Lemmy ;)
Edit: they also offer a translate tool (https://translate.kagi.com/) and a minimalist News feed tool (https://kite.kagi.com/)
Thank you, have a nice day