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.

  • MrGerrit@feddit.nlEnglish
    61·
    3 years ago

    Okay, I’m going to ask it seriously: how good is it for searching porn?

  • Deebster@lemmyrs.orgEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    I’ve been using Kagi for two months and I’m loving it - the ability to control your results is amazing. Some things I do:

    • remove or downrate things like pinterest and w3schools from my results
    • rewrite www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/*
    • rewrite to send some sources through archive.today or similar to break paywalls
    • rewrite to set the language of some sites that GeoIP my location but ignore my language headers

    Also, having keyboard controls - like Google used to have - is so welcome, and their AI summarisation tools are actually useful too.

      • Deebster@lemmyrs.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        https://www.example.com/(.*)|https://archive.today/search/?q=https://www.example.com/$1

        This takes you to the search results so it’s an extra click to get to the actual page.

        My actual regex is a bit more complicated since it deals with multiple domains but that’s the gist.

  • platoose@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    nice - unlimited Kagi was good value at $25 for power users but at $10 it’s good value for everyone, even if they never dig around in the settings

    my favourite feature is raising / lowering results, as others have mentioned, but I also use the AI summarizer quite often

      • ripcord@kbin.social
        2·
        3 years ago

        I just do searches like maybe 4 times a day on average. And i’m by no means poor but even $60/year seems a bit much.

        Edit:. Eh, i went ahead and subscribed, we’ll see how it goes. Initially tests were pretty good.

  • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    Very cool. I joined on September 4th and am still on my 100 free search trial. I think the $5 plan will be just fine for me and i get to pay in crypto. Win win.