Looked at #perplexity this evening, as I'd never tried it before. The key reason I like #kagi better is that Perplexity is another #AI search engine that wants me to type full sentences. How is this better? I want to type "rclone caching", not "Please tell me how rclone caching works and what my options are." Or "airpods pro latest firmware", not "What is the latest firmware version for the Apple Airpods Pro 2?" Kagi does a good job of having AI available when I want it, but still allowing me to search like a normal human being who doesn't want to type so much my fingers fall off. Me caveman. Want short search. Not want lots typing. Want search engine figure out context. Me not provide.
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On this Data Privacy Day, choose a search engine that puts you first. No ads. No tracking. No compromise. Just the results you want, on your terms.
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If you're a #blind user, you should really consider #Kagi for web search. Especially if you pay for chat GPT pro, you can subscribe to Kagi instead for cheaper and get more features. But even if you don't want AI, the search page is #accessible, fast, and light-weight. And unlike other big tech companies (Microsoft and Google) Kagi still offers a cheaper plan with no AI if you don't want it. Also, because they downrank websites with ads, the more accessible results tend to be at the top. Kagi also lets you block domains from your results. So I got rid of inaccessible stuff like instagram and pinterest, and downranked YouTube, because those results aren't usually #screenreader accessible. While I don't agree with many of the opinions of the @kagihq founder (especially his decision to do business with Yandex for image search), I still feel like using Kagi is more ethical than dealing with Google or Bing, and that these are reasonable differences of opinion that reasonable people can have, not just another clownishly evil tech company. I also find the idea that if you're a paying customer, that somehow guarantees the business will treat you better, really strange. I pay a lot to my ISP and they still treat me like dirt! Kagi will almost certainly sell out at some point. But for the moment, it's where it's at for search: www.kagi.com/
Kagi Translate is not revolutionary - it's simply a better translation service.
Try it for yourself, and access 244 languages with zero tracking: translate.kagi.com/
Also: we will be bringing Kagi Translate soon inside Kagi Search as a widget for instant translation inside search results! 🪄
I am originally skeptical of @kagihq ‘s new Translate when I read the changelog since it’s using LLM, but damn I was wrong.
I used a piece of Chinese news to test the translation, and Kagi is the only one that translate 副總統勝選人 to “Vice President-elect”. Google Translate translated it to “Vice President Candidate” (副總統候選人） while DeepL only translate it to Vice President (副總統)
AWESOME new @kagihq update:
For ex: I want to look at the #OpenStreetMap wiki page for (power) sockets.
Previously you could do search like this:
socket !osmwiki
this would bring you to wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sp…
But if I know that the chance of the right page being the first result on #Kagi is high, I can just do:
socket @osmwiki !
then I land on: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ke…:*
! is basically the Kagi equivalent of that google "i'm feeling lucky" feature from back in the day
Konečně jsem se rozhoupal vyzkoušet vyhledávač #Kagi. Zejména mi tím došlo, jak moc Google stagnuje, jak moc se překlopil na stranu inzerentů, nikoliv uživatelů. Na Kagi zatím cením hlavně to, že polovinu první strany výsledků nezabírají reklamy (kdy jste u Googlu naposledy mohli kliknout na první výsledek?) a že můžu výsledky snadno přeházet nahoru/dolů podle svých preferencí – k tomuhle existuje i vtipný globální žebříček „toho nejhoršího z webu“: kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboar…