This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).

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.

  • Izzy@lemmy.ml
    8·
    1 year ago

    Maybe it is just me, but is this kind of post the norm now on social media? I get that Reddit and Lemmy are supposed to be this kind of “link aggregator”, but when I see posts like this it just feels like an ad. I’d much prefer to see a post where OP came across the product organically and came here to discuss it and post their thoughts on the matter. You wouldn’t even need to link to it as people can search for it themselves if they are interested.

    I do appreciate that services such as Kagi are starting to appear to replace the ad driven business model of yesteryear, but I’d prefer to see posts on Lemmy be between users that have their own thoughts and opinions.

    • Kayn@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I actually am one such user! I’m aware this looks an awful lot like an ad.

      I’m just very happy with my own experience on Kagi, and since it’s pretty niche, I thought I’d use the text part of this post to eloborate a bit on what Kagi actually is, since the title alone doesn’t. Perhaps I’ve gone too far into appetizing it.

  • krey@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    1 year ago

    i have a question: if you enter an uncommon term, maybe even with punctuation in it, e.g. firefox.desktop , will the top results contain that exact word or will it be like all other search engines (showing millions of similar results instead, even in verbatim mode) ?