They’re all right, I suppose, but it wasn’t dissatisfaction with search results that caused me to want to use Kagi. Rather, that I wanted to use a search engine that has a sustainable business model that didn’t involve data-mining me or showing me ads.
If Google or whoever offered some kind of comparable commercial “private search” service with a no-log, no-data-mining, no-ad offering, I’d probably sit down and to compare the results, see what I think. I kind of wish Google would do that with YouTube, but alas, they don’t…
Kagi does have a feature where they will let you search the complete Threadiverse that I make use of, since I spend a lot of time here; there isn’t really a fantastic way to accomplish this on Google or another search engine that I’m aware of. They call that their “Fediverse Forums” search lens; that’s probably the Kagi-specific feature that I get the most use out of.
They have other features, like fiddling with the priorities of sites and stuff like that, but I don’t really use that stuff. They do let you customize the output and stuff. You can set up search aliases and stuff, but I can do most of that browser-side in Firefox.
They have the ability to run a variety of LLM models on their hardware, provide that as a service. I have the hardware to run those on my own hardware and have the software set up to do so, so I don’t use that functionality. If I didn’t, I’d probably find some commercial service like them that had a no-log, no-data-mining policy, as it’s more economical to share hardware that one is only using 1% of the time or whatever.
I dunno. They have some sort of free trial thing, if you want to see what their search results are like.
How much better are Kagi search results? Would you say it is worth using over something like searx?
They’re all right, I suppose, but it wasn’t dissatisfaction with search results that caused me to want to use Kagi. Rather, that I wanted to use a search engine that has a sustainable business model that didn’t involve data-mining me or showing me ads.
If Google or whoever offered some kind of comparable commercial “private search” service with a no-log, no-data-mining, no-ad offering, I’d probably sit down and to compare the results, see what I think. I kind of wish Google would do that with YouTube, but alas, they don’t…
Kagi does have a feature where they will let you search the complete Threadiverse that I make use of, since I spend a lot of time here; there isn’t really a fantastic way to accomplish this on Google or another search engine that I’m aware of. They call that their “Fediverse Forums” search lens; that’s probably the Kagi-specific feature that I get the most use out of.
They have other features, like fiddling with the priorities of sites and stuff like that, but I don’t really use that stuff. They do let you customize the output and stuff. You can set up search aliases and stuff, but I can do most of that browser-side in Firefox.
They have the ability to run a variety of LLM models on their hardware, provide that as a service. I have the hardware to run those on my own hardware and have the software set up to do so, so I don’t use that functionality. If I didn’t, I’d probably find some commercial service like them that had a no-log, no-data-mining policy, as it’s more economical to share hardware that one is only using 1% of the time or whatever.
I dunno. They have some sort of free trial thing, if you want to see what their search results are like.