This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).

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.

  • Kayn@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Why the hell would you pay for search when the free competitors are just better

    Explain how they’re better.

    Also it’s automatically not private when it requires a login.

    Just because something requires a login, doesn’t mean searches are logged. That’s something you and I simply can’t know.

    “If it’s free then you’re the product” isn’t even true when search engines are ad supported

    Explain.

    If you really want to pay while not having to login, self-host a searx instance

    And you easy do you think this is for the average Joe?

    Unless you can actually explain your points, you should stop arguing in bad faith.

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah if you literally just scrolled down, I elaborated on everything. Keep your “bad faith” bullshit to yourself when you’re doing it to me. Quit the astroturfing. Also yes, having an account means they objectively can track you since queries are coming from an account. There is zero guarantee they are not logging. You are shilling. “If it’s free then you’re the product” is just not a thing that’s true in reality. DDG has ads based off of search keywords. Wikipedia is entirely donations. Services exists without the user being the product.

      • Kayn@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        There is zero guarantee they are not logging.

        There is also zero guarantee that they are logging. Both are equally true.

        DDG has ads based off of search keywords.

        That’s still using the general DDG userbase as a product. Just because the ads aren’t personalized, doesn’t mean you’re not a product for ad placement.

        Wikipedia is entirely donations.

        Wikipedia is run by a non-profit organization. If something offered by a business is free, then you are the product.