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Review of The Search Engine Kagi
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this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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Tried kagi due to all the yapping here on lemmy, 99% of the results are exactly the same as ddg, no matter what their "x% unique kagi results" says, which just strikes me as dishonest. If they're going to lie to me about things I can check, why would I trust them when they say they don't log or track?
There's definitely some kind of astroturf marketing campaign going on here, this guy's only interaction with the fediverse is posting a link to some softball piece review of an incredibly underwhelming service.
I can tell you that I've been using Kagi for a few months and it hasn't been life changing or anything. But I would say that it has been useful enough to keep around. I honestly like the info dense layout over the other search sites, and I use the ability to push down or block sites entirely so I don't see the spam sites I don't want to see. Also, "quick answers" is actually pretty useful sometimes when I don't want to click on any of the search results. Plus, with the $10 sub, you get unlimited uses of the summarizer, which has been great for arxiv papers.
I wouldn't say it's for everyone and I don't know if there's astroturfing going on, but it's been useful enough for me to keep paying the $10 a month
I was wondering about the astroturfing. The support didn't seem super organic. I'm not dumb enough to not understand how modern marketing works. I tried it and was not impressed too. It's also stupid expensive. Thanks for the confirmation. I was beginning to wonder if I was the only person here that wasn't paid to use it.