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> The one thing I find slightly grating about links to Kagi blogs is the top comments are almost always "I use Kagi and it's great!" Couldn't agree more. I don

by potamic 27d ago

> The one thing I find slightly grating about links to Kagi blogs is the top comments are almost always "I use Kagi and it's great!" Couldn't agree more. I don't know how others perceive it, but I find myself becoming more and more wary of broad endorsement. Maybe it's the amount of astroturfing you see on the internet, but I can't help imagine if there is a concerted effort behind it. When someone shares something meaningful and insightful about a product, there's no better endorsement of it. But low effort platitudes are probably doing more harm than intended.

forestrywat 26d ago
What if it's genuine? I use kagi. The results quality is pretty good, but I probably use the uprank and downrank feature all the time. Being able to report stuff as AI and get little indicators that a site is AI slop is good. As an example, serious eats is my go to recipe site, and I've got it tuned so it returns higher in my results. I also really appreciate I can write my own custom css, and style every box and widget on the page. And marine most of all, I love that their AI tool will not show up unless you end your query with a "?". Meaning I'm explicitly opting in to using it. My last reason for liking it is ideological. No ads, no manipulation because of advertising tech. Just ... the stuff I searched for. I do not like the image search page, however. It feels clunky in a way I can't put my finger on. There's a few other things I really like, but it's hard to type them all out. So I often go, "kagi is great, love kagi."
Drew_ 26d ago
I get the same feeling with this sort of thing. I did try Kagi and stuck with it for the last year. It's pretty good, but not without it's faults. - Out of the box, search result quality is comparable to Google - Search is slow. Latency for most queries is about a second. Sometimes 3 seconds. Google is shockingly fast in comparison. - Personalized results is a killer feature (blocking, boosting and suppressing domains) - There is no iOS app. Only one in beta that is seemingly abandoned. - Their site/app design is just passable at best - Their AI quick answers give solid answers and are pretty concise

by potamic 27d ago

forestrywat 26d ago

What if it's genuine? I use kagi. The results quality is pretty good, but I probably use the uprank and downrank feature all the time. Being able to report stuff as AI and get little indicators that a site is AI slop is good. As an example, serious eats is my go to recipe site, and I've got it tuned so it returns higher in my results. I also really appreciate I can write my own custom css, and style every box and widget on the page. And marine most of all, I love that their AI tool will not show up unless you end your query with a "?". Meaning I'm explicitly opting in to using it. My last reason for liking it is ideological. No ads, no manipulation because of advertising tech. Just ... the stuff I searched for. I do not like the image search page, however. It feels clunky in a way I can't put my finger on. There's a few other things I really like, but it's hard to type them all out. So I often go, "kagi is great, love kagi."

Drew_ 26d ago

I get the same feeling with this sort of thing. I did try Kagi and stuck with it for the last year. It's pretty good, but not without it's faults. - Out of the box, search result quality is comparable to Google - Search is slow. Latency for most queries is about a second. Sometimes 3 seconds. Google is shockingly fast in comparison. - Personalized results is a killer feature (blocking, boosting and suppressing domains) - There is no iOS app. Only one in beta that is seemingly abandoned. - Their site/app design is just passable at best - Their AI quick answers give solid answers and are pretty concise