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.

  • lloram239@feddit.de
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    For one, it’s based in the USA, so it is legally subject to the insane, antidemocratic, and awful state surveillance there.

    https://kagi.com/privacy at least sounds pretty good.

    It is also a corporation, so it is subject to enshittification.

    https://blog.kagi.com/safe-round this sound good as well.

    The part that I don’t get is how they can match Google in terms of search results quality when Microsoft couldn’t even get close with Bing and a heck of a lot more time and money.

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      Easy. Kagi cares about the quality of their product giving you the customer good results. Their product is a search engine. Google doesn’t care to make their search engine better currently. Their product is ad placement and sales. You are not their customer.

      Kagi already exceeds Google at being a search engine, at this time.

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      Don’t think you will find a better search engine than Kagi. They can’t even see what queries users are running, according to their own comments.

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        That’d be weird if they couldn’t, there’s no way they can improve their search engine other than by watching the way users use it.

        Otherwise it exists in a vacuum.

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          I would guess they mean that they can’t see which queries belong to which users.