I really like Kagi and this is probably Apple’s fault but the requirement to install a safari extension which then hijacks your default search is very janky and is my #1 complaint.
Any reason it can’t just be added as a search engine?
I've been using Kagi for 6 months and I honestly don't know how they do it, it's amazing and it makes me want to vomit every time I see Google or DuckDuckGo, Bing etc.
One important thing people rarely mention is that it is so fast. It's so much faster than Google to show results, makes it for a much smoother searching flow.
They also added gemini 1.5 pro to their chat assistant.
However, it seems like it isn't added to the select menu yet, but it can be accessed by changing sub_mode to 8 in the url query.
I recently heard of SearXNG and I use it instead now. Where I live $10 is a lot of money, more than it's worth to me especially considering I use LLMs a lot now instead. I find I search a lot less now.
And I like the way SearXNG is self-hosted. You can configure and prioritise a lot. And it can even search torrent sites etc.
I used to think Kagi had their own index but as far as I've heard most of it is actually meta results from other engines, just re-ordered.
The only thing I miss is an integration with ChatGPT, that would be amazing.
I've been using Kagi since June of 2022, daily. I had to use Google the other day because I was on someone else's PC and in that moment I was reminded just how awful Google's search has become. You genuinely see how you're the product when you use Google these days.
That's some super steep pricing
Why is sales tax being applied now? Is there some new tax law or is Kagi offering a new benefit that requires taxation?
I finally switched to Kagi last month after reading a bunch of HN comments that boiled down to "trust me, it's worth it." And now I'm here to say "trust me, it's worth it."