I would never use a browser that requires an account. That's insane.
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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The number of searches i get for the $5 should roll over to the next month if i dont use them all. No way i will be able to convince anyone to switch to this when they will run out of searches every month
That's a valid criticism.
On the other side: Pay for a year at once and get 3600 searches/year. The rollover also doesn't happen, but the effect is drastically reduced. Also get a discount overall.
I'm not saying that kagi is perfect, but fuck google sideways. Eat the rich. Pay for the product or you are the product.
Kagi lied about its privacy claims and I can pull up the thread about the user who exposed it & the CEO got into this ridiculous evasion over it but I’ll let you do it for me. KAGI SUCKS 💥
Do you have the link? I'd be interested to read about it.
Thank you for the reminder. The name was tickling my brain but I couldn't remember. The CEO acted like a major creeper. Must have gone to the Musk School of Bidness Mismanagement.
Lmao fuck off with your ad
I've been using mojeek and ddg, but I've been considering setting up SearXNG on a server.
I pay 5 euros for a VPS at Hetzner and self host my own SearXNG metasearch engine without compromising my privacy. Unlike Kagi, I can search without limits and without the AI stuff that even Kagi has started getting into.
But SearxNG doesn’t have the nice features like bangs, redirects, changing the priority of domains, custom CSS, lenses, etc.
Kagi has clearly stated that the AI features will always be optional and the engine is designed to be useful without them.
I use and prefer Kagi myself but what does this have to do with this community?
It's hip to like Kagi because it's not Google.
I think I stopped paying for Kagi at the third or fourth controversy I heard about, I can't remember which one. I wasn't exactly happy about the implication that paying for Kagi means giving money to the bigot founder of Brave.
Every complaint I’ve heard about the owner has been ridiculous. I don’t know about the bigotry though. It’s better and has been since it wasn’t hip if it’s actually hip now. I’m swapping between it and my own searxng instance.
@willya these days, I still get excited when a fairly well-known entity opens an account in the Fediverse.
I can only speak for myself, but I like to keep posted when important people and organizations are opening accounts on the Fediverse. :)
It's funny that Kagi included "fediverse forums" functionality in their search before they decided to join Mastodon - one would think the search functionality required a bit more.
By "entering the Fediverse", do you mean that they created an account on mastodon.online?
@rglullis yes, exactly. To avoid misunderstandings, I changed the title (I hope he updates Lemmy too)
Well, this is certainly a lot less exciting than what I first thought.
I subscribed to the lower tier for a while, but I kept running out of searches early on every month, and the price of the higher tier is just not excusable. So I found myself adding the !ddg bang most of the time to avoid spending my Kagi quota.
And as good as Kagi is, it's still primarily a meta search engine, organizing results from the dominant actors. So it's not like the price is justified by them having to crawl the entire web themselves. Their own crawler, Teclis, is currently small web only and can probably best be described as an interesting project.
Instead of making search cheaper or more affordable, they spend subscription money on creating AI services and various other non-search distractions. Maybe that's good for some people, but I don't want that shit. I just want a good search engine at a justifiable price. And for that, sadly, Kagi fell short.
For me, it took me several months to use the 100 trial searches. Paying $5/month for like 20 searches isn't worth it for me. Also just not into getting more subscriptions... wouldn't matter if it was just 50 cents/month for the basic plan. If they had one-time-payment no-expiration option like 1000 searches for $10, I'd probably lean towards getting that.
Aaah, now I get it. You guys made an account to post on. I saw the headline and I was busting my head how in the world a search engine would federate within the fediverse...
Mastodon posts tend to get funky when they federate, because Mastodon has this (annoying) norm of starting posts with mentions. So OP mentioned the community on the first line, which became the first part of the title - @fediverse. Second, it mentions Kagi as a tag instead of name, which gives the @kagihq. And then comes the first sentence as the rest of the title.
It's a great example of Lemmy/Mastodon interoperability working, but not being quite there yet.
Mastodon posts tend to get funky when they federate, because Mastodon has this (annoying) norm of starting posts with mentions. So OP mentioned the community on the first line, which became the first part of the title - @fediverse. Second, it mentions Kagi as a tag instead of name, which gives the @kagihq. And then comes the first sentence as the rest of the title.
I'm not writing from Mastodon, but from Friendica
It's a great example of Lemmy/Mastodon interoperability working, but not being quite there yet.
The mentions problem seems to be only for PieFed, but it doesn't happen with Lemmy
I think it should be reported as an issue to PieFed developers
It seems you're right - the title field from Friendica doesn't federate well to PieFed. So I probably misinterpreted the confusion about the title. :)
But it's a Friendica post, not from Mastodon. You can't write such a long posts on mastodon
Depends how the instance is set up. But yeah, it's the norm many places in the Fediverse, not just Mastodon - I should have double checked! :)
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