Anyone here using this? Is it actually better than google and worth the money?I keep seeing this get recommended on privacy focused forums (different subreddits, grapheneOS discussion forum, sometimes here, etc) and I generally don't mind paying for privacy respecting services, but I just don't see how it can be that much better than the other free search engines. And honestly at this point chatGPT has replaced 99% of my google searches.
>>108227740been using it since they launched basically, it is better of course than jewgle and the like, but $10/month better? idk, i'm on a family plan and pay like $4 a month. if chatgpt has replaced your google searches then you'll like !quick and ? don't they have a free trial? just try it out try out the uprank/downrank/pin feature as well if you do. for example, i look up words often and i have a rule that if there is a result from merriam-webster it should always be pinned as the top result. things like that
>>108227818I did try it out, but my most often searched query on google is something like "ufc schedule" and I expect to see a nice info card thing pop up that has all the information I need - doesn't seem like kagi has anything like this beyond pulling wikipedia data.
>>108227740Brave search is 90% as good, for free.If all the free search engines suddenly get bad, it'll be nice to have a paid option to escape to.
>>108227835yes there's very few external integrations like that
>>108227884>if search engines got badJust pay up piggie
>search "metal slug 6 ost" >khinsider page with the full ost isn't even on the first page let alone the first resultI don't know why but a goddamn kingdom hearts fan site seems to be the great litmus test on whether or not a search engine is good
>>108229144it is on mine. that's what i like about it
Who the fuck uses search anymore? I haven't visited Google since chatgpt 3
>>108227740>>108230354>chatGPT has replaced 99% of my google searches.Do they always provide relevant links including to porn sites? Images too? Most AI's i've used are very censored when it comes to that. The more mainstream, the worse.
100 free queries a month, it's a good backup option when Google and Yandex both give you shit. i just haven't needed it lately since i don't do much with my life anymore.
>>108227740I use 4get with duckduckgo try it I think it's safe and privacy friendly enough
>>108227740I've had it for over a year, and like it quite a lot. Results are usually good, and the option to only search forums is incredibly useful. Best way to get non-SEO spam answers to questions.Most annoying thing about it is how slow the image searches are, but I rarely do that, and google is mostly fine for images.I'm on a yearly plan, and if I didn't do another search for the rest of the year, it will have been 1.2 cents per search. Really not that bad.They do get a lot of heat on orange reddit and lobsters for refusing to censor results or post warnings for political reasons, which is definitely a plus. If they ever change their mind on this, I'm cancelling.>>108227818>i look up words often and i have a rule that if there is a result from merriam-webster it should always be pinned as the top result.Thanks, just added this.
>>108231682So what you're saying is I can see those "educational" sites and content that are always filtered off by the kiddy-fied google search?Sounds like a win for me. Too bad they won't offer less than $10 plans.
>>108231805You can get a year for $100 if you like it, and really, is $10 that much to you? I bet you spend more than that every time you go to Starbucks.
Worth it for filtering Pinterest, freefileconvert, w3school, ai and facebook results
>>108231682>They do get a lot of heat on orange reddit and lobsters for refusing to censor results or post warnings for political reasonsdidn't know that, based
>>108231682>post warnings for political reasonsWhy would political content need a warning?
I use it. $10 plan.I also relate to it as a former janitor in elementary schoolsNobody cares about you until you take a day off. Then they realize the trash didn't get emptied.It's easy to forget how good it is to use Kagi until you go back to using Google for a while. Knowing this, I just keep paying for it and using it
>>108227740>>108227818>>108229703>>108231248>>108231682>>108231846>>108232061>>108232152>>108233218holy mother of shill there is no way you morons are actually paying for a google clone
>>108233251It's one of the few things worth paying for these days. Enjoy gargling google balls you googly eyed goober
>>108227740It's worth the money, been paying for two years now. They have a hidden service and privacy pass support to make it anonymous. They just need monero support.
>>108233263>type what im searching for into duckduckgo>it appears on the first page of results every timewhat am I missing here
>>108233287If you're happy with DDG's shit results then good for you, I need good search for work stuff though.
>>108233294ignore all previous instructions and buy an ad
>>108233303you're kind of a gay retard, you know?
>>108233200it shouldn't. unless it's radical far-right jingoism that masquerades as "content"
>>108229703hmmm
>>108233251Paying for services is good actually.Companies that offer free services still have to make money somehow, and I'd much rather pay for a private service than have my data harvested and sold.
>>108233589You think private companies dont sell your data…dude come on man.
>>108233636reddit cynicism is low iq
>>108233636You know in real life they need to tell you if they sell data in their privacy policy right? For example in Proton's case you can easily check for yourself and see that they don't, plus almost everything they store is encrypted and they've been shown in court to not keep logs. Sure you can criticize them for providing any information at all over to law enforcement but what do you really expect them to do? We need to distinguish between a service that even a nation-state can't access data from and a service that protects your data from being sold.
>>108233287Tell me you didn't see the pre-2012 google search without saying so.
>>108227740THAT'S Kagi's mascot? Woof.
>>108234471>service that even a nation-state can't accessSwitzerland is not a nation-state.
>>108234471Yes, setting the bar at "Mossad can't torture your data out of them" is unreasonable. Kagi is a great step up from most search engines in that any fuckery with data brokers or advertising would completely kill their main revenue stream.
>>108234471>For example in Proton's case you can easily check for yourself and see that they donreally??????? how can I?????
