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I just moved to Kagi last month. Here’s my experience: Searching for real time information that happens within a day is way worse than google. I realise how mu

I just moved to Kagi last month. Here’s my experience: Searching for real time information that happens within a day is way worse than google. I realise how much I missed the shopping search of Google. Google map is still irreplaceable. Google search has better UX, I particularly missed the favicon that identified the site next to URL. Image search is also way inferior

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> Searching for real time information that happens within a day is way worse than google This is fair. On the other elements, I’ve found Kagi to be superior. In particular, having shopping results separated from recommendations (and summarising them with quick answers). As for favicons, uprank or even anchor your favourite domains [1]. That’s what the favicon was proxying. [1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalized-results.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize...
MaPi_ 2y ago
There is a setting to turn on the favicon somewhere
- RavlaAlvar 2y ago
  Thanks, just found it
esperent 2y ago
You picked the exact three things that Google does better than Kagi: Maps, Shopping, and realtime information. I'd also add local business information to this list. But you didn't mention the things that Kagi does better than Google which is in my experience: everything else. Google is still "free" though so there's nothing stopping you from adding !g to your Kagi shopping searches.
mikkelam 2y ago
I agree on the first part. Having used kagi for about 6 months it often lacks behind on recent things. I find myself automatically adding !g on such queries
- freediver 2y ago
  Can you share an example or two of this?
  - RavlaAlvar 2y ago
    I was trying to search the shooting of the united CEO one hour after it happened, and it didn’t show me anything about this news or discussion.
    - freediver 2y ago
      Would be great if you reported it with screenshots so we can try to debug what went wrong. I encourge you to do that next time via https://kagifeedback.org https://kagifeedback.org
      - drewbitt 2y ago
        I’ve shared a few reports on Kagi Feedback about poor results but haven’t seen any team engagement. I figure you’re just dealing with a lot overall.
nzealand 2y ago
Kagi provides a fantastic summarizer. I have a bookmarklet for Kagi's Universal Summarizer, and if a long article or video doesn't immediately tell me "what it's gonna tell me" then I just click it. javascript:Object.assign(document.createElement("a"), {href: `https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html?url=${encodeURIComponent(window.location)}`, target: "_blank"}).click(); Protip: Youtube changed something recently, and now I think you have to show the transcript and watch/wait a little bit before Kagi can find the transcript and summarize the video.
freehorse 2y ago
You can put the favicon next to the url in the settings (appearence). Ime image search is far better in kagi. I found some specific images that i was looking in google _for months_ and i could not find. Just because they were some older blogposts probably and google penalises older posts, and because of the AI generated cesspool that it is becoming.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> Searching for real time information that happens within a day is way worse than google This is fair. On the other elements, I’ve found Kagi to be superior. In particular, having shopping results separated from recommendations (and summarising them with quick answers). As for favicons, uprank or even anchor your favourite domains [1]. That’s what the favicon was proxying. [1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalized-results.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize...

MaPi_ 2y ago

There is a setting to turn on the favicon somewhere

RavlaAlvar 2y ago
Thanks, just found it

esperent 2y ago

You picked the exact three things that Google does better than Kagi: Maps, Shopping, and realtime information. I'd also add local business information to this list. But you didn't mention the things that Kagi does better than Google which is in my experience: everything else. Google is still "free" though so there's nothing stopping you from adding !g to your Kagi shopping searches.

mikkelam 2y ago

I agree on the first part. Having used kagi for about 6 months it often lacks behind on recent things. I find myself automatically adding !g on such queries

freediver 2y ago
Can you share an example or two of this?
- RavlaAlvar 2y ago
  I was trying to search the shooting of the united CEO one hour after it happened, and it didn’t show me anything about this news or discussion.
  - freediver 2y ago
    Would be great if you reported it with screenshots so we can try to debug what went wrong. I encourge you to do that next time via https://kagifeedback.org https://kagifeedback.org
    - drewbitt 2y ago
      I’ve shared a few reports on Kagi Feedback about poor results but haven’t seen any team engagement. I figure you’re just dealing with a lot overall.

nzealand 2y ago

Kagi provides a fantastic summarizer. I have a bookmarklet for Kagi's Universal Summarizer, and if a long article or video doesn't immediately tell me "what it's gonna tell me" then I just click it. javascript:Object.assign(document.createElement("a"), {href: `https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html?url=${encodeURIComponent(window.location)}`, target: "_blank"}).click(); Protip: Youtube changed something recently, and now I think you have to show the transcript and watch/wait a little bit before Kagi can find the transcript and summarize the video.

freehorse 2y ago

You can put the favicon next to the url in the settings (appearence). Ime image search is far better in kagi. I found some specific images that i was looking in google _for months_ and i could not find. Just because they were some older blogposts probably and google penalises older posts, and because of the AI generated cesspool that it is becoming.