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Kagi allows you to weigh domains.

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I switched to Kagi yesterday and I am so far very impressed.

I did this search to answer another comment and later did the Google one:

https://kagi.com/search?q=What+does+that+site+make+you+drag+...

https://google.com/search?q=What+does+that+site+make+you+dra...

Kagi shows the exact answer in the first result. Google gives no relevant answers on the first five pages (did not go further). Probably because Google focusses on 'highlight' too much. Kagi seems very aware of the context.

Ooh, interesting, how do you get an invite?

wondering the same.

kagi.com has a "sign-up for beta" link. Didn't take long before I received an invite (week or two?).

I just signed up myself.

I like how they ask you what features you want as you are signing up. I mentioned that I want to be able to vote on results and have my own results prioritized by the votes of me and my peers.

seems cool, thanks. I've applied for the beta

The pricing (in the FAQ) is a non-starter for me, but there are probably enough people with the money for it to make a nice business out of it. Maybe it'll be enough to apply some competitive pressure to Google.

edit: to be clear, it's not unwillingness, I literally do not have $10-30/month to spare without compromising my progress toward not being perpetually broke. Not everyone here is a well-compensated tech worker.

The quintessential be the customer or the product being sold dilemma...

The pricing is actually one of Kagi's most interesting features to me. There's an old phrase "If you aren't paying for the service then you're the product". I'd be suspicious of any price too low, as it would indicate they have another revenue stream.

I think that saying was updated to "even if you're paying, you're still probably the product"? No? There's some truth to it, but it's not as simple as these sayings suggest.

I'm hoping they figure out an easy way to let users charge this as a business expense (maybe an annual subscription?) For programming it's as valuable to me as a good editor plugin!

Curious what do you have in mind? Every subscription can be expensed as a business expense, does not need to be annual?

My employer provides an annual fund for work related software, books, etc. But each charge requires me to file a form and get a human approval. Doing this once a year would be easier than once a month.

That makes sense, thanks!

Funny side effect of this post: For me the first link in the kagi results is now the link to kagi itself with the same search term.

Oof, I feel like Kagi should be filtering out results that reference itself.

I'm really happy with Kagi. Being able to block and boost results is a killer feature. They're also more willing to show that they couldn't find results for searches. Compare that to Google, whose engineers designed it to (seemingly always) exclude the most specific term in a search to return irrelevant results.

Also you can completely block domains, and pin to the top of the results.

I just started using Kagi, and they definitely seem to be doing a lot of stuff right.

I've also switched to Kagi recently and I think I find myself almost never doing !g (compared to DDG). And if I go to Google, it's mostly for hyperlocal results.

So far I've only found two areas where Google beats Kagi. One is, as you say, local/POI search. The other is deep diving into family history stuff - I've been tracing a 19th century composer and Kagi didn't surface most of the interesting documents. But for pretty much everything else it seems better than Google.

Thanks for the feedback! (Kagi founder here)

Local results are on our roadmap, we should be launching it within few weeks.

I am wondering if can you report problematic queries to https://kagifeedback.org so we can take a look?

Including fully blocking them if desired!

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