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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.

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[-] beefcat@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

Kagi has better search results than any other engine I've used. That is why people pay for it.

[-] fwygon@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago

No it doesn't. SearXNG aggregates all engines anyways; and that gets far more helpful results.

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

This is literally "nuh uh" quality discussion. We get it, you like SearXNG, are you actually trying Kagi?

I just tried a few SearXNG instances and the quality is the same as what I get from Google or Bing anyways.

Trying out Kagi now to see if it's better or not.

[-] fell@ma.fellr.net 0 points 9 months ago

@douglasg14b @fwygon I love Kagi. For technical topics, the search quality is unparalleled. For everything else it's about the same.

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it's technical topics I care about, and have a hard time with in current search engines.

There is so much noise caused by celebrity news, current events, "hot topics", politics, "top 10" list spam, SEO gaming....etc that searches on Google, bing, and ddg are just frustrating.

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