Thank you Kagi folk that hang out here.
Kagi doesn’t have search history of any of their users, so they can randomize them at best, which makes no sense.
Kagi has exclusivity deals with trillion-dollar corporations and a monopoly on search?
Kagi has 30k subscribers, it is totally uninteresting to these AI results farms. This is just one example, but I hope you see my point. I cannot see Kagi beginning to compare to Google.
I think what OP meant was that he dislikes kagi’s search algorithm on a specific ground that also happens to apply to Google. The way it’s phrased is pure trolling though, or clickbait if you prefer.
> Additionally, a recent EU ruling presents a significant opportunity for Kagi. Google is now required to include any search engine that meets specific criteria, such as having an app with over 5,000 installs, in the default list for Android and Chrome.
I have the Kagi app on my iPhone, but just so it can be an extension in Safari. In a perfect world, I would be able to go into the settings, add a custom search engine, and be done with it. No app or extension needed. Then when it hits a threshold it can be added as an easy option for people to pick from a list.
Because otherwise you can’t use it as a default search engine on the platform, because it doesn’t allow it. Same for iOS. They had to write an app to intercept search requests and redirect to Kagi.
I tend to like how Firefox does it, where any search the user goes to, there is an option to add it as a search option and set it as the default. This should be the standard all browsers use. Junking up a phone with apps just for what is ultimately a setting change isn’t ideal.
The hacks Kagi has to do for Safari is annoying. They’ve gone so far as to make their own browser to make it better, though I’m sure that’s not their only reason. I’ve had some issues with the Safari extension over the years. I hope Apple changes their approach on this.
Happy to see that custom bangs work (eg a discourse forum I visit), but eventually I'd like to specify how far along the path to "snap".
I'd like my @javadoc to hit `site:docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/23/docs/api/` instead of the current `site:docs.oracle.com`.
[1]: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs?tab=readme-ov-file#bang-...
I don’t use any LLM features of Kagi, and it’s not hindered in any way.
I wish there were Alfred alternatives for other operating systems
See also the settings for personalized results - block useless domains from even appearing.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/personalized-results.htm...
@r vs site:reddit.com
After a few tries, I also find the first more intuitive.
Unfortunately, having both search engines easily available led me to discover as much as I like Kagi I just use google more, despite its ads. Google is faster to get answers to simple questions (it usually answers them on the results page, without another click) and shows more results, although you need an extension for the latter.
More info on how to set up these shortcuts here: https://superuser.com/a/1806652
Kagi has a quick answer feature: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/quick-answer.html
If you add a question mark to the end of your query, it uses an LLM to generate an answer using the first few results (with citations to the sources).
What would be super awesome, imo, would be if I could assign "some sites" as a short code, then snaps that.
So for instance, I might put html, phoenix, CSS, and tailwind spec/references all as one grouping, and then I can search "select drop-down @phoenix" - and search for that across all references (so I can see the html spec alongside the tailwind and phoenix docs)
For example I have a custom QT lens that only includes results from [*.qt.io, *.stackoverflow.com, *.github.com...] and a !qt bang pointing to it at https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&l=8
(you'll have to change the l= id to point at your lens)
I previously made a custom bang for reddit to do exactly this. I guess I can delete that now and do the same thing on every site without all the setup.
Kagi is so nice. They give me the power to do these things on my own, while adding it in natively so over time less and less setup is actually needed.
Kagi is one of the few subscription I don’t think about cancelling on a weekly basis.
WTF is this marketing bullshit?! Default Google Search is useless now and I'm rooting for Kagi, but this "exclusive" untruth is decidedly NOT the way to "win".
Google's "site:<domain>" search has been around for years: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/sear...
Not related, DuckDuckGo's "bangs" https://duckduckgo.com/bangs which has, likewise, been around for years.
*sigh*
The Kagi specific part is /easily/ searching a site in Kagi.
The whole point here is that they are extending the already supported bangs[1] to search the domain with "@", thus if "!r" exists to redirect to Reddit's search, you can use @r to search Reddit within Kagi.
Of course I could type "site:Reddit.com" that's what I've been doing for years, including on Kagi, but easily doing that with @<bang> seems exclusive to Kagi.
[1] Kagi maintains an open source list of supported bangs here, you can even do a PR to add even more: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs