Leveling up our infrastructure
This Sunday at 6am UTC, we’re making a step forward on our production infrastructure.
After years of faithful service, our original database server is being replaced with significantly more powerful hardware.
Expected downtime: 10 minutes
Protecting young minds: Enhanced video safety for families
Your children deserve better than clickbait and shock value. We’re making it happen with advanced video controls.
Family account owners can now shape a safer, cleaner video experience for family members:
Authentic thumbnails
- Replace misleading clickbait with actual video screenshots
- See what you’re really getting before clicking
- End the bait-and-switch
Clean video titles
- Choose between title case or lowercase formatting
- Create a consistent, distraction-free experience
- Focus on content, not hype
Example (click to enlarge):
To access these options, navigate to:
Settings > Parental Controls (section: Video Search Settings) or
click here.
Why this matters
Recent research confirms a disturbing truth: children’s video searches frequently expose them to inappropriate content, violence, and frightening images. We believe our children deserve better. Kagi’s new parental controls help parents better manage the video content their children are exposed to, reducing the risk of exposure to inappropriate content and creating a safer online experience for them.
Help us protect more young minds - share your thoughts on making this protection available more broadly to all plan types. In case you wonder why we did not make this option enabled by default - video thumbnails and titles serve as a marketing tools for content creators, and changing them unilaterally would introduce us as a biased intermediary on a matter that is still in the air. This could have a negative impact for publishers and potentially conflict with our mission to “humanize the web”. It is a delicate issue, and this is why we had propagated the control over this to the user level, as with all personalization features in Kagi.
Custom Assistant Bangs
Launch your Custom Assistant instantly from anywhere with a Bang shortcut. Simply set your preferred command and you’re ready to go.
This seamless integration means your Assistant is always just a keystroke away, whether you’re researching, writing, or exploring new ideas.
Improvements and bug fixes
- We fixed many issues causing interruptions with the Assistant. please let us know if you see any further issues.
- Standalone bang shortcut ignores snap #5083 @tuesday
- Timer shown for unrelated query #4103 @azdanov
- Duplicate video results #4306 @loloriz
- Z-index on icon covers tooltip #4849 @bebowilson
- Custom bangs that override builtin bangs no longer work #5148 @avkiselev
- Focus address field after clicking reverse image search button #4906 @tuesday
- Override the ai downranking if you are searching ai images #5082 @Thibaultmol
- Quick answer weird code block formatting #4770 @timo
- Background for Advanced search in dark mode is too light #4586 @eirk
- Keep focus on the search field upon accepting suggestion #4973 @xdc
- Pricing page translation typo #4596 @Albi
- !gflights incorrect target #5132 @Connor
- Untimely redirect when typing a verse #5107 @X145678908765
- Assistant: Option to use Shift+Enter to send prompt instead of just Enter #2121 @Value7609
- Enhancement Request: Customizable Multiple AI Assistant Prompts with User-Defined !bang Commands #2183 @ZarK
- Assistant input text box stubbornly places itself under the keyboard #4902 @gunslingerfry
- New Assistant - Touch Issues on Mobile (Dynamic Viewport Resizing, Covering Sources) #4835 @silvenga
- Microphone on assistant doesn’t work #5105 @sleepysnooze
- Assistant web search gets stuck #5025 @azdanov
- Typo in the FAQ #5079 @duck
Join the Kagi revolution in the wild!
Here are all the cool places you can find us at:
Use #Kagi when mentioning us in your posts! Which brings us to this week’s featured post from social media:
We also have a Kagi Community Discord server where you can join our community for real-time discussion about the product and chat with other Kagi users. There is also /r/SearchKagi on Reddit - steadily growing unofficial community.
Thank you for being a vital part of our journey - your support inspires us every day, and we can’t wait to see where this adventure takes us next! 🙏
@Atemu @kagihq looks like they are using the same method as the clickbait remover extension which is using one of the three auto generated thumbnails created by YouTube when a video is uploaded
The downside is their thumbnail algorithm looks for faces, as you can see in their example screenshot